Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (German: Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit) is a book by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz. It is about major threats against humans that Lorenz sees in ongoing disregards of nature and in new and emerging technologies. The material originated as six lectures Lorenz held for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1970, before a revised version was published as a book in 1973.^[1][2]

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins

Author	Konrad Lorenz
Original title	Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit
Translator	Marjorie Kerr Wilson
Language	German
Publisher	Piper Verlag
Publication date	1973
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1974
Pages	157

The eight threats Lorenz warns about are:^[3]

1. Overpopulation
2. Crimes against nature
3. Obsessive technological development
4. Emotional atrophy
5. Genetic decay
6. Ruptured traditions
7. Indoctrination
8. Nuclear weaponry