A few weeks before he was assassinated in 1947, Gandhi handed his grandson Arun a list of 'Seven Blunders, ' out of which, Gandhi claimed, springs the violence of crime, rebellion, and war that plagues the world. He considered these 'Seven Blunders of the World' as dangerous to humanity, as 'disbalances' that will kill us. In this book Ron Duffy picks up on Ghandi's idea but replaces Ghandi's Seven Blunders with what he calls Seven Social Evils which have arisen in modern times and left to continue unchecked will eventually-and he does not doubt it-create a world that is unfit for human life. In his Dedication to Pope Francis he quotes from the Pontiff's encyclical Laudato Si: "A sober look at our world shows that the degree of human intervention, often in the service of business interests and consumerism, is actually making our earth less rich and beautiful, ever more limited and grey, even as technological advances and consumer goods continue to abound limitlessly." That is the world to which Duffy's Social Evils is inevitably leading us. They are, in alphabetical order: Apathy, Cruelty, Fundamentalism, Greed, Ignorance, Inequality, and Malice