Debate: Mirage of Eternal Progress?

Since ancient times progress has been seen as an attempt to improve living conditions and the functioning of both individuals and entire communities. Personal and social development, work, creating new technologies and scientific discoveries are a guarantee of prosperity and comfort. Lack of implementation of these actions or their limitation easily lead to the impoverishment of society. State of prosperity is symbolized by the economic development. As noted by the authors of the film "Surviving Progress," at a time when survival of the community depended on the successful hunt of mammoth, finding an efficient way to kill two mammoths could be called a progress. However, the strategy of hunting the entire herd of mammoths by squeezing them at the edge of a cliff and pushing, would be called a progress trap. Ronald Wright wrote in "A Short History of Progress” that “many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the Earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilizations which fell victim to their own success”. Being warned about its content can we change something now to avoid the fate of the fallen civilization? Certainly we are not helpless against the existing problems, as long as they have a source in our action, the solution lies in the range of our capabilities.