The World Energy Outlook

Posted by Netra | Thursday, January 08, 2009 | 0 comments »

Every entity and event in the universe is changing, and the cause is the energy being acted upon it. If we correlate the development with the art of guiding/channelling this inevitable change for the wellbeing of society and link the activeness of the average citizen with the advancement, it is logical to define the indicator of life-standard by the per capita energy consumption. Therefore, it is not surprising to label the countries like, USA, Japan, Canada and other European countries (high per capita energy consumption) as developed, and the third world countries (very low energy per capita) as undeveloped/developing. To be more precise, all the efforts and the activities intended to be more advance can roughly be identified by the amount and the art of the energy consumed. The rising rate of energy consumption by the countries like Brazil, China and India will cause the change in the world energy outlook soon. With the faster rate of depleting the fossils fuel sources, the desperation of the countries having high dependency on fossils fuel, will be more apparent. The main source of energy having been non-renewable and their availability on limited amount and place, it is likely that the prospective world politics will be energy centered and it is difficult to know the course it would follow in coming decades. The countries which have ever been covering the western news media like- Middle East, Afghanistan, Russia etc, may have different broadcasting stories in surface, however, it would not be out of context in associating them with the fuel concern. On the basis of the recent forecasted data (see the graph), the petroleum and coal reserve will be almost finished by the end of this century and the natural gas be available until another century. If we are unable to take the proper steps to provide the sustainable solution, especially speaking, if the countries which have not signed the Kyoto protocol are not serious on their approach, it will be impossible to protect the future generation from destining to the stone-age. In conclusion- non-renewable based energy source, the dominancy of few countries in production and consumption , the struggle among the countries to possess these resources, the increasing rate of depletion of the limited energy resources and finally, the alarmingly rising environmental pollution-are the main front pictures appeared in the present energy centered world politics.

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