Surviving Progress
Humanity's ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But
what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse?
Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired
SURVIVING PROGRESS, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by
"progress traps" - alluring technologies and belief systems that serve
immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world's
resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our
globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress
trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who
have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this
requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that
making apes smarter isn't an evolutionary dead-end.
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