:ENERGY CRISIS:
God sent Adam with very few needs and strong limbs to fulfil those needs.As time passed and civilization advanced, man found himself more and more aloof from nature ,lazy and luxurious and utterly dependent on machines ,and machines need energy .In the industrially advanced world of today the demand for energy is in increasing every day.We have machines and factories ,buses,cars,trains and planets and ships and sub-marine.Energy is needed to run them ,but this is not all Man has grown so lazy that he does not like even to wind his watch so energy is being used for running clocks and watches,typewriters shaving razors and many more things.
Wood later on coal was the first source of energy.Then came oil and passing through the stage of atomic energy man is looking forward to solar energy.We are naturally anxious because we know that a day may ultimately come when we have no more coal or oil.It will mean energy crisis people who have made careful calculations feel that we have used all available oil by the year 2025
and coal mines will also be empty in about thirty years .Man is on the look out for other sources of energy.Our present hope seems to rest on nuclear power.
But nuclear power is full of risk .It is very explosive and mishaps in nuclear reactors are very hazardous.The radio active waves from a nuclear plant that has broken down are great threat to man .Moreover when a nuclear plant is dead after 50 years it has to be buried and guarded for ever.
The world is thus faced with energy crisis the condition of India is no better the demand for energy in India is growing it is estimated that if things continue that if things continue at this rate India will need four times of energy by the year 2000.The government of India is talking steps to supply energy for non commercials purpose from various sources such as bio-gas and quick growing forest plantation but rural poor are unable to pay the high cost of energy.
Never less all possible efforts will have to be made to save us from total darkness and helplessness scientist are doing their best but the major responsibility rests with the politicians because it is sometimes lack of political will that hinders developments in every fields.