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Clothing: The rate at which humans lose heat is largely determined by the temperature of their environment, which is usually lower than 37 degrees. The greater the temperature difference between body core and the external environment, the greater the rate at which heat is lost. An unclothed human in cold high latitudes loses heat far more rapidly than a human in hot low-lying tropical regions. In cold climates, the threat is that body temperature may fall too low. In hot climates, the threat is that body temperature may rise too high.
Human Needs & Wants Food: At the same time, eating substantial amounts of hot food at regular intervals through the day was necessary to fuel this level of constant activity. "Keeping busy" in a hot tropical climate, by contrast, is suicidal. The energy content of food is not a measure of the value of food to humans in forward days of life
Wants.. Human wants consist of things which are desired for themselves - amusements, diversions, luxuries, toys, games, art, music, literature, and countless others. If human need is singular, human wants are plural. Human wants appear when people have idle time on their hands, and begin to wish to amuse themselves in their idle hours, in one way or other. Human wants act to fill idle time, to use up idle time. The problem for idle people is not how to come by idle times, but what to do with it once they have it.
Wants
What is commonly called "wealth" consists in human wants. "Rich" men are commonly held to be those who possess large mansions, with stables and gardens, yachts and fast cars and airplanes, fine art, expensive furniture, tailored clothes, jewellery, and so on. Or if not these things, then the money that can buy them. Human wants arise in idle time, and are satisfied in idle time. Whoever has a wish to play chess requires the idle time in which to make a chess set, and then to play the game. Whoever wants to sail in a yacht requires the time to build a boat, and then to sail about in it.
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