[D66] Docu: Surviving Progress

[R.O.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_Progress


Surviving Progress
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Surviving Progress is a 2011 Canadian documentary film written and 
directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, loosely based on A Short 
History of Progress, a book and a 2004 Massey Lecture series by Ronald 
Wright about societal collapse. The film was produced by Daniel Louis, 
Denise Robert, and Gerry Flahive.


Subject matter

The film is structured as a series of interviews, interspersed with 
footage from all over the world. The film is said to be "inspired by" 
Wright's lectures:[3] Unlike the book, which focused on ancient 
civilizations, the film focuses on the present-day impact of 
civilization, including the impact of concentrated wealth.[4] The 
underlying message here is that current models and strategies of 
economic growth have no practical connections with the real world. That 
is to say, the lack of an ethical underpinning in modern global economic 
practices is directly responsible for the overconsumption and 
exploitation of natural resources to the extent that the increasingly 
more probable future population collapse would take modern society right 
along with it.