Improvements in technology have the prospect of allowing us, or machines, to fulfill our basic needs with much less labor, but of course that could go either way - where the owners of capital hoard the resources, or where we develop a system that shares it.
Groundwater is considered as one of the most basic and precious needs for the survival of mankind to fulfill our basic necessities of life.
Electricity is our basic need.
Only full debt cancellation would free the resources needed for investment in health and education and for fulfilling the basic needs of their people.
Social welfare schemes like the national employment guarantee program provides some relief to poor people by fulfilling their basic needs, but they don't actually improve their standards of living, Mr. Srinivasan said.
However, only through the integration of environment and development concerns with greater attention to these link can we achieve the goal of fulfilling the basic needs, improved living standards for all, better protected and managed eco-systems and a safer, more prosperous future.
"The fact that they're migrants means that they move from place to place, and so nobody feels completely responsible for fulfilling their basic needs and protecting their rights," says UNICEF Child Protection Officer Theresa Kilbane.
Tariffs serve to block our natural instinct to fulfill our myriad needs and desires.
"Although the response was certainly not universal, many New Yorkers, gay and straight, began to use their resources to confront ignorance, call attention to injustice and assist in fulfilling basic needs".
Alternatively, the poor may be targeted as consumers and citizens and reached through public spending aimed at fulfilling basic needs.
