Surviving Progress (Matthew Roy/Harold Crooks, 2011) Canada

Reviewed by Alex Canzano, Santa Barbara Film Festival

“Money grows faster than the real world.”

“The richest 20 percent of humanity consumes 86 percent of all goods and services, while the poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.”

“We’re essentially stone-age hunters running 21st-century software – our knowledge on hardware that hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years.”

“Americans constitute five percent of the world’s population but consume 25 percent of the world’s energy.”

“The world is finite.”

“They’re cutting down the rainforest, they’re emptying out the economy, they’re turning it into a hole in the ground: to pay back the bankers.”

“Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”