In his 1973 book , Civilized Man 's Eight Deadly Sins , Konrad Lorenz addresses the following paradox : `` All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him , his technological , chemical and medical progress , all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering ... tends instead to favor humanity 's destruction '' Lorenz adopts an ecological model to attempt to grasp the mechanisms behind this contradiction .
In his 1973 book , Civilized Man 's Eight Deadly Sins , Lorenz considered the following paradox : `` All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him , his technological , chemical and medical progress , all of which should ( help ) to ( ease ) human suffering ... tends instead to ( make ) humanity 's destruction ( more likely than it was before ) . ''