Surviving Progress / First-Run Features (Firm).

Based on the best-selling book A Short History of Progress, this provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major "progress traps" facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors:	Infobase (Film distributor) First-Run Features (Firm)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : First-Run Features (Firm), [2011]
Series:	Films on Demand.
Subjects:	Progress > Environmental aspects. Science and civilization. Technological innovations > Social aspects. Technology and civilization. Internet videos.
Genre:	Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 26 min., 33 sec.)) : sound, color.
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Introduction: What is Progress? (6:35)
Evolution and Culture (1:31)
The Question "Why?" (3:40)
Technology: a Double Edged Sword (3:38)
Overpopulation (3:26)
Growing Affluence in China (6:33)
Natural Capital (1:57)
Progress Based on Economic Growth (1:39)
Progress Trap of Civilizations (2:21)
A Short History of Debt (3:34)
Wall Street (2:28)
Oligarchy Rulers (2:00)
Debt Pushers (4:46)
Deforestation in Brazil (1:48)
Brazil's Ecological Agency, IBAMA (3:16)
Large Landowners Versus Small Farmers (2:43)
Destructive Economics (4:00)
Death of National Economies (3:45)
Escaping the Progress Trap Through Science (4:54)
Controlling Evolution (5:10)
Limits (3:18)
Individual Choice (2:49)
The Planetary Brain (2:48)
Changing Human Nature (2:48)
Credits: Surviving Progress (3:26)