When Neanderthal hunters learned to drive one or two mastodons off a cliff, the tribe ate well for weeks. When they stampeded the whole herd over a cliff, the tribe's own survival was threatened. That ...
There will be no shortage of noisy apocalyptic movies vying for our attention as 2012 moves along. Surviving Progress is something else entirely — a globe-spanning documentary that carefully addresses ...
Have you ever wondered what Canadian public television is like? Probably not. But for the five of you that have, “Surviving Progress” is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. The documentary — made in ...
On Thursday, March 27, the McGill branch of Cinema Politica presents Surviving Progress, a Canadian documentary with a worldwide outlook. The basic message is that our future will be mighty grim if we ...
Right from the start, the documentary Surviving Progress lets viewers know there will be no easy answers to the questions it's posing, as the opening query, "What is progress?" leaves some of the ...
A wide variety of thinkers—naturalist Jane Goodall, novelist Margaret Atwood, economist Michael Hudson, energy specialist Vaclav Smil, psychologist Gary Marcus, geneticist Craig Venter, environmental ...