Energy_Security_Through_Energy_Conservation.

Energy security through energy conservation. No human activity is possible without energy. Despite Human beings being the superior being among all living things and matter on this planet, capable of controlling almost all things blessed by nature, we can hardly live without them. For such a long time in human history, human muscle power have been increasingly supplemented by energy of draught animals and whenever feasible, sunshine, wind and falling water stream were also harnessed. It was only after the industrial revolution in Europe, the use of energy from fossil fuels became known to us and its use has been ever-increasing as the economies of the world accelerates against one another. No nation can even barely exist without it. Energy can be broadly classified into two forms- renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. Non-renewable sources of energy includes almost all those exhaustible sources of energy such as coal, petroleum and natural gas where as renewable sources of energy includes those inexhaustible sources such as tidal energy, solar energy, geothermal energy and others that have a regenerative capacity. When the question of conservation arises, we mean that of non-renewable sources of energy. Ever since the need of different forms of energy has been recognized, there has been fear of depletion due to overutilization of it. The more goods we produce to satisfy our multiple wants, the more non-renewable natural resources get exhausted beyond the nature’s assimilative capacity to regenerate it. Imagine life without energy; no modern man cannot ménage to live a single day without its use. At this point, there arises a need to conserve it, such that we can sustain the life that we enjoy today to the future, such that our future generation can get a little bit of what we had today. Our actions today should be in such a way that our energy needs in the future will be secured. But the question is- how are we supposed to conserve it'' From a layman’s point of view, the best solution is to efficiently utilizing it making the best possible use of it fixing priorities and avoiding wastage. But the answer is not always that simple. Our needs today is mounting and the modern way of life have spoiled us today that we are so much used to many luxuries of life. We simply cannot just forgo some of our needs for the sake of conserving energy. This paves way for another solution of making use of alternative renewable sources of energy such as solar energy, tidal energy, and geo-thermal energy etc substituting non-renewable resources to satisfy our energy needs. This may be the most desired solution but never an easy one, as tapping such forms of energy demands for efficient technology. Even Nuclear energy, if efficiently tapped for domestic use has the potentiality to satisfy many of our energy needs. Another solution, probably the most important one to restrain our energy use would be controlling the growth of population. The more the population would mean more mouths to feed, more energy needs to be satisfied. With an ever escalating world population, neither efficient management of resources nor finding alternative ways would be a solution for our energy crisis. It is indeed difficult to determine the exact unique path to follow satisfying our objective to conserve energy. To act rationally, we should be cautious of our consumption style, and at the same time put more efforts in inventing technology and perhaps restraining growth of population. Since the present energy crisis suggests that our future is at stake, it is urgent that everyone should be aware of the booming energy crisis and the ways suppress it. Educating the ignorant and development of the right attitude among the masses should thus be the very first step. Every individual should be aware that our actions today have consequences in the future. “Save energy for a better tomorrow”