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Figure 1. Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

Everyone is driven to do stuff by a need, however some needs come before others. Maslow, an American psychologist from the early 1900's suggested that there is a defined hierarchy. The idea was that once a lower level is fulfilled a person moves to the next, stage above. If you are hungry you buy some food, if you are thirsty you buy water. Once these basic needs (see Figure 1) are met then you can move up towards psychological needs such as relationships and prestige.

Maslow's Hierarchy and Environmentalism

In relation to the ecological crisis, a human's basic needs need to be met before they can address these issues.

As about 9.2% of the world, or 719 million people, live in extreme poverty, lacking food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It is impossible to think that our environmental issues will be faced before drinking water for near a bullion people is solved.

Universal Basic Income, the idea where a central body provides the lower rungs has been shown to decrease mental health issues^[1] and allow people to not behave in environmentally destructive work patterns and concentrate on other things.

References

↑ Canada’s forgotten universal basic income experiment: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment

[1] Canada’s forgotten universal basic income experiment: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment

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+'''Everyone is driven to do stuff by a need, however some needs come before others.''' Maslow, an American psychologist from the early 1900's suggested that there is a defined hierarchy. The idea was that once a lower level is fulfilled a person moves to the next, stage above. If you are hungry you buy some food, if you are thirsty you buy water. Once these '''''basic needs''''' (see Figure 1) are met then you can move up towards psychological needs such as relationships and prestige.
-If you are hungry you buy some food, if you are thirsty you buy water. These basic needs can be categorised into what is most powerful and therefore comes first, i.e. you wouldn't worry about your self esteem if you were starving. After the basics are covered you proceed up to another category of needs, Safety and so on. Maslow thought about this enough to create a human hierarchy of needs, the idea is that once a lower level is fulfilled a person moves to the next, stage above.
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+As about 9.2% of the world, or 719 million people, live in extreme poverty, lacking food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It is impossible to think that our environmental issues will be faced before drinking water for near a bullion people is solved.
 Universal Basic Income, the idea where a central body provides the lower rungs has been shown to decrease mental health issues<ref>Canada’s forgotten universal basic income experiment: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment</ref> and allow people to not behave in environmentally destructive work patterns and concentrate on other things.
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