TRAILER SURVIVING PROGRESS from AMBULANTE on Vimeo.
This is the trailer of a documentary I watched recently about progress, good progress and bad progress and how humans haven't really evolved in about 50,000 years. It deals with many themes and narratives that we intersect with daily, technology, debt, the possibility of economic, social, political and financial collapse, global warming, consumption and consumerist behavior and how that interacts with a biosphere of limited resources. We exist in an infinite growth paradigm, a paradigm which is based on the consumption of finite resources. There are 2 Billion consumers in this paradigm with 5 Billion more aspiring to take part. Progress? Martin Scorsese is Exec producer, it is well worth the watch. The full length version is available to watch in five parts on Youtube.
From the website
"Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century’s software — our know-how — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years. With rich imagery and immersive soundtrack, filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks launch us on journey to contemplate our evolution from cave-dwellers to space explorers." more here
