Maslow's Hierarchy Be Damned

If you are serious about Climate Change and improving farmers' lives, pay attention to how the West and the Rest of the World perceive "development" differently.

Special thanks to Ramasubramanian and Sunita Narain for their ethics leadership which birthed this piece.

If you want to understand why Abraham Maslow was dead wrong about his “Hierarchy of Needs”, talk to an average Indian farmer, stuck in quicksand where agriculture is both a business and not a business. My Mentor friend Ramasubramanian recently quippe…