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Energy in Human Affairs, Resource Utilization & Clean Source of Energy (Essay)
011 months ago
“Energy is central to the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of human existence. Energy is a principal source of environmental stress, it is a principal motor of macroeconomic growth, and it is a prerequisite for meeting basic human needs.”
The above mentioned quote very aptly states the importance of energy in the human affairs & lays the foundation for the struggle between different nations that we witness today. If we re-visit the history of the human race we will see that the control over the energy resources has always been a major concern for humans. One of the reasons is that this control is strongly related with the survival of the humans as well.
The hunter societies were the only ones that were not harming the nature in their struggle of survival, but instead giving the nature time to regenerate itself. However, no other form of human community More >
Baby Steps Towards a Greener Lifestyle
21 year ago
So you read a lot of green articles on the Internet, in the magazines or hear people talking about it wherever you go. You accept that the environment is rapidly being affected by the choices humans have made over the years. You are an advocate of green living, but at the time believe going green involves a lot of changes that have heavy cost attached to them. The decision to adopt a green lifestyle keeps being delayed because you don’t have money to install solar panels, replace your cooling & heating systems with green equipment, wearing clothes made from natural fibre and purchasing organic food. To you, going green means increasing your expenses. And that’s where you are wrong!
Living green is not about the products you buy; rather it’s about the products you don’t buy. It suggests that before making a decision, you must first consider its impact More >
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
0Whenever we see someone doing or following environmentally friendly practices we seem to always get a weird reaction. Because they think somewhere in their minds that people doing something on environment have nothing constructive to do. Why don’t they understand that the air we breath makes up the most of our environment, the soil we grow our food is our support for being alive, the water we drink is a part of this environment and most importantly that we get fresh water from seas and oceans by the natural processes which purify water and transform it to rain so that we can met our daily basic needs. So if environment and natural forces are doing that much for us than why can’t we behave in a bit more responsible manner to show our concerns and appreciation toward it?
We can keep our streets clean by following the very basic 3R’s More >
