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Ronald Wright, Short History of ProgressSeptember 2005 By Devika Mistry
Wright’s premise starts at the works of Paul Gauguin. A 19th century painter, Gauguin’s mural asks three questions that are vital to the understanding of our own environmental dilemmas of today: “Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going?” For Wright, it is the third question, which intrigues him. “Where are we going?” Wright believes that careful reflection on the first two questions can ultimately answer where our species is headed.
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