Surviving Progress Reflection

planting trees and plants. By doing even just one of these things, it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the effect of climate change. In Surviving Progress, the main topic is not only about how climate change is affecting the environment, but rather how society’s “progress” is making climate change worse. This film is inspired by Ronald Wright in which many other interviewers, including Ronald Wright, give their opinions on today’s society and how humanity is making climate change worse. This documentary focuses on how society is impacting the world and how businesses are one of the many main causes of the worsening of our climate. Ronald Wright, a Canadian author who has written books such as “Stolen Continents,” states an interesting quote about …show more content…
This explains how our society has been progressing too fast that we are ruining the environment. Sooner or later, we will not have a place to live as the Earth will be destroyed. Because of humanity, many environments are being destroyed, such as the Amazon rainforest where it’s forests are being cut down as a result of businesses and of course, money. Many countries that are in debt are selling sections of their land to various businesses. Because of deforestation, it gives many people jobs and many civilians depend on jobs like deforestation. Many of them do not want to ruin the Amazon forest, but the job is the only way they will be able to support themselves and their families. This documentary explains how the resources we use are limited. Marina Silva, former minister of the Environment, Brazil, states that “Until very recently, people believed that natural resources were practically infinite, and the only valued commodities were those transformed by Man. We are now discovering that nature provides services to human life on Earth and that people living in certain geographical locations are the keepers of nature’s services” (Surviving