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In pursuing progress through human ingenuity, societies inadvertently introduce new problems.
A progress trap is the condition human societies experience when, in pursuing progress through human ingenuity, they inadvertently introduce problems that they do not have the resources or the political will to solve for fear of short-term losses in status, stability or quality of life.[1] This prevents further progress and sometimes leads to societal collapse.
The syndrome appears to have been first described by Walter Von Krämer in his series of 1989 articles[2] under the title Fortschrittsfalle Medizin. The specific neologism "progress trap" was introduced independently in 1990 by Daniel B. O'Leary with his study of the behavioral aspects of the condition: The Progress Trap – Science, Humanity and Environment.[3]
The term later gained attention after the historian and novelist Ronald Wright's 2004 book and Massey Lecture series A Short History of Progress in which he sketches world history so far as a succession of progress traps. With the documentary film version of Wright's book Surviving Progress, backed by Martin Scorsese, the concept achieved wider recognition.
^Meek Lange, Margaret (2011), "Progress", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2018-11-01
^Von Krämer, W. Fortschrittsfalle Medizin (Medical progress traps), Der Spiegel, 13 March 1989
^O'Leary, D. The Progress Trap – Science, Humanity and Environment, Archived presentation, Global Ecopolitics, July 1990
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