[D66] A Short History of Progress

[R.O.]

https://www.tvo.org/video/archive/ronald-wright-on-a-short-history-of-progress

On 14-07-2020 07:53, R.O. wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Progress
> 
> A Short History of Progress is a non-fiction book and lecture series by 
> Ronald Wright about societal collapse. The lectures were delivered as a 
> series of five speeches, each taking place in different cities across 
> Canada as part of the 2004 Massey Lectures which were broadcast on the 
> CBC Radio program, Ideas. The book version was published by House of 
> Anansi Press and released at the same time as the lectures.[1] The book 
> spent more than a year on Canadian best-seller lists, won the Canadian 
> Book Association's Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and 
> was nominated for the British Columbia's National Award for Canadian 
> Non-Fiction. It has since been reprinted in a hardcover format with 
> illustrations and also in Kindle and EPUB digital formats.
> 
> Wright, an author of fiction and non-fiction works, uses the fallen 
> civilisations of Easter Island, Sumer, Rome, and Maya, as well as 
> examples from the Stone Age, to see what conditions led to the downfall 
> of those societies. He examines the meaning of progress and its 
> implications for civilizations—past and present—arguing that the 
> twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, 
> consumption, and technology that has now placed an unsustainable burden 
> on all natural systems.
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