''Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins'' () is a book by the Austrian

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Konrad Lorenz Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoology, zoologist, ethology, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von ...

. 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

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in 1970, before a revised version was published as a book in 1973. The eight threats Lorenz warns about are: # Overpopulation # Crimes against nature # Obsessive technological development # Emotional atrophy # Genetic decay # Ruptured traditions # Indoctrination # Nuclear weaponry

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1973 non-fiction books Works by Konrad Lorenz Piper Verlag books Works based on radio programs {{nonfiction-book-stub