Surviving Progress- 2011
What is progress?
Have we progressed in our habits? Why is the
smartest specie in our planet destroying
its own home? Can the technology
solve the problems that it has been causing and has already
caused?
These and other questions are addressed in this very interesting documentary about the meaning of progress, its frequent relationship with economic growth and how that might endanger the existence of life. It is based on
the book “A short story of
progress (2004)” of Ronald
Wright, who has testimonials
from Marina Silva, Jane Goodall, Stephen
Hawking, among others from various sectors such as anthropology,
politics, philosophy and workers.
Through data, beautiful
images and reflections, it is
indicated how fast the world is changing, especially
after the Industrial Revolution. They consist in mere
increase in quantity and complexity
of what was already done, what does not guarantee improvement. It is thought about the effects
of human evolution as a species
(Homo sapiens) with
the transformations of their habits, once biologically a little has changed in the last 50,000 years, in compensation, the behavioral changes
were huge.
It is also discussed the issue of millennial financial oligarchy (economic power in the hands of a few),
external debts, which seem to have no end, since the growing interest that prevent them from being settled, leading governments to seek alternatives like selling rights over natural resources.
In this context, arises Brazil. It is approached
the deforestation in the Amazon,
the difficult supervision and the fact that the real guilty (big farmers, colonels,
senators, representatives and
international organizations) go unpunished, while low-income workers are suffering the consequences. Finally, it is discussed the issue of consumption, inequality (Europeans and Americans
consume 50 times more than Bangladeshis)
and alternatives to change the current parameters and save the planet.
It's worth checking to reflect on the different aspects of the same issue.
Surviving Progress leaves us with a challenge:
To prove that making apes smarter was not an evolutionary dead-end. (http://survivingprogress.com/?page_id=13)
(http://blacksheepreviews.blogspot.com.br/2011/11/black-sheep-interviews-mathieu-roy.html)
(http://blacksheepreviews.blogspot.com.br/2011/11/black-sheep-interviews-mathieu-roy.html)Nicole Pinotte Rodrigues (Translation: Fernanda Romero)
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