10 years ago

“Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.”

The above quote comes from Ph.D David Suzuki. Suzuki is Canadian academic (Ph.D Zoology)professor (genetics) and environmental activist was starring (CLIP) in the film Surviving Progress….Before the rise of Rome, nations and city-states forgave all debt from time to time and started again. Today one of the most efficient means of making money is to create debt. Interested? then watch the film Surviving Progress (TRAILER) (VIEW IN I-TUNES), a 2011 documentary film based on Ronald Wright’s bestseller “A Short History Of Progress”. SP explores the double-edged story of the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. And how we are repeatedly destroyed by ‘progress traps’ – alluring technologies which serve immediate need but rob us of our long term future. Features nobody else then British theoretical physicist and author Stephen Hawking. And economic historian research professor Michael Hudson. With Martin Scorsese as executive producer – (Story of Stuff) “This time the film leaves us with a challenge – to prove that civilisation and survival is not the biggest progress trap of them all”!