We and Our Earth

Energy is the life and soul of modernisation. Energy is the part and parcel of our daily life. It is not wrong to say that it has a very deep impact on our society and it looks like a desert to just imagine our so called sophisticated and well-organised world without the daughter of science, technology and energy. In a nutshell energy means life.

With the advent of human life on this Earth, men have been interfering in balance of nature. That was the time when goddess of knowledge had not bestowed them with the world’s powerful and useful weapon, Knowledge. By the dint of knowledge they pierced the chest of earth, won the altitudes of sky and left the fish behind in gigantic oceans. As the wheel of time moved around we uncovered many secrets of nature including fossil fuels.

With the discovery of fossil fuels the whole world revolutionised as it was Aladdin Magic World. Men used that energy very lavishly, thinking that it is renewable source of energy. He used industries, cities, agriculture, transportation and defense, leading to advancement in every phase of life. We use energy to produce electricity as fuel in industries, in homes, in transportation (vehicles, trains, aeroplanes, space shuttles etc), in defense. World’s only super power USA uses about 40per cent to 50per cent of world’s fossil fuels. Worlds emerging economies India and China are using coal and petrol very lavishly. Transport is the major factor for usage of petrol and diesel. World’s 80per cent of electricity is produced through coal, petrol and gas and remaining is produced through nuclear energy, wind energy, solar energy, Geo thermal energy and tidal energy.

Men have established monster like industries, factories, and gigantic means of transportation, heavy chemicals and biological weapons. All these dangerous things have made our nature on the core of extincts. They emit hazardous gases like sulphur-Dioxide, carbon-Dioxide, lead oxide, carbon-mono-oxide, including acids which corrodes our buildings like termites such as sulphuric acid, carbonic acid etc. Above discussed gases are fatal for our life and hundreds of people each day suffers from skin and eye diseases, lungs and skin cancer. When these gases goes up it destroys ozone layer (a protective layer which protects us from ultra violet rays of Sun), resulting in a hole which has been made at Antarctica. They also work as green house gases as they trap sun’s rays under earth’s atmosphere resulting in global warming. Scientists are agreed that if this global warming would not nip from the bud then we will have to pay for it by extinctions of many creatures and plants, through floods, snowfalls, cyclones and rainfalls. The system of nature and weather will be sixes and sevens. In some regions there will be rainfalls and some places will be barren. It would also cause melting of glaciers. According to some reports the melting of ice has boosted up to 20per cent as compared to natural process. It would endanger many species like polar bears, fox, seals, fish, and other species which are dependent on oceans and seas. Many hazardous and biological weapons are creating bundles of complications in nature. They are making our nature polluted by emission of various gases and chemicals which can prove fatal for wildlife. The uses of pesticides, insecticides and fertilisers, discharge of chemicals wastage and rubbish contribute very richly towards water pollution. These useful compounds when go into water, creates apt situations for growth of algae, which absorbs most of oxygen from water, thus resulting in lack of oxygen in it. That affects the marine life.