Surviving progress dives into the grey that we ought to pay more attention to and probes us into contemplation about the term “progress” and its utility. Isn’t progress good? If it is good, are we making the right progress? And if we are to progress, what are we to survive? The documentary takes a dystopian approach toward answering its posed question though it does not fill in the void for what is missed. What is clearly driven and understood from the documentary is that we fool ourselves to think that the technological advances we continuously innovate on make us better as people and aid us in conserving the earth.
The opening scene is both thought provoking and daunting; defining progress. This seemingly simple question proves harder than assumed to be and leaves some of the biggest minds involved at a loss for words. Progress in the Merriam Webster dictionary is defined as movement forward or toward a place. As well as the process of improving or developing something over a period of time.
But have we in fact as a society progressed? Going from the above definition of progress, how much of the earth have we improved? Wright himself says, "We're running 21st century software, our …show more content…
“The people who discovered how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made real progress, but the people who discovered that they could eat really well by driving a whole herd over a cliff and kill 200 at once, had fallen into a progress trap; they had made too much progress.” Isn’t that what we as a society have done to ourselves? We are essentially the people who have driven the mammoth off of the cliff. Jane Goodall states “Unlimited economic progress in a world of finite natural resources doesn't make sense. It's a pattern that is bound to
The opening scene is both thought provoking and daunting; defining progress. This seemingly simple question proves harder than assumed to be and leaves some of the biggest minds involved at a loss for words. Progress in the Merriam Webster dictionary is defined as movement forward or toward a place. As well as the process of improving or developing something over a period of time.
But have we in fact as a society progressed? Going from the above definition of progress, how much of the earth have we improved? Wright himself says, "We're running 21st century software, our …show more content…
“The people who discovered how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made real progress, but the people who discovered that they could eat really well by driving a whole herd over a cliff and kill 200 at once, had fallen into a progress trap; they had made too much progress.” Isn’t that what we as a society have done to ourselves? We are essentially the people who have driven the mammoth off of the cliff. Jane Goodall states “Unlimited economic progress in a world of finite natural resources doesn't make sense. It's a pattern that is bound to