Surviving Progress (2011)
Directors : Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks Cast : Ronald Wright, Mark Levine, Robert Wright, Jane Goodall, Marina Silva, David Suzuki and others Produced by Martin Scorcese
Ronald Wright’s bestseller inspired the documentary Surviving Progress, a cinematic requiem to progress-as-usual. Throughout human history, what seemed like progress often backfired.
Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled.
In his Short History of Progress (2004), Canadian author Ronald Wright writes
“each time history repeats itself, cost goes up”
Indeed, history helps us avoid costly mistakes—and antitrust history should help us avoid not only mistakes, but also mistaken stances.
Economists are not real scientists... they consider the Ozone layer, water, soil, air, externalities - David Suzuki
