Seeing the Future in the Ruins of the Past. Ronald Wright

Description

This episode of The Green Interview features Ronald Wright, a novelist, essayist, historian, philosopher and the author of nine books, including the 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, "A Short History of Progress," which won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year and was subsequently produced as a documentary film. Wright is also a compelling and well-regarded speaker who began as an archaeologist and then returned to it later, looking for patterns in the rise and fall of human societies.

Runtime

78 min

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Date of Publication

[2014], c2010

Database

Films on Demand

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