ENERGY CRISIS: Inescapable yet Solvable Problem

Energy Crisis is a widespread problem and have been experiencing not only on a single country but almost all over the world. As the time goes by, this problem has getting worse and worse and the time will come that it will come into worst if not given emphasis.

Energy crisis is simply defined as shortage, scarcity, lack and insufficiency of the energy resources that we have. We are lacking of those energy because we are depending on a single source of it and since that we are dependent of that single source, that resource is decreasing and decreasing until it gone and when it gone, it will be hard for the people to look for the other resources for the reason that they have been independent on that single resource. Many countries around the globe have been experiencing it since early 1970’s. US dependence on petroleum imports has grown steadily and commercial petroleum stocks to cope with an interruption in import matches the historic lows proceeding 1973 and 1979 energy crisis. Even here in our own country, Philippines is experiencing those bad effects of it. Sufferance to our countrymen will come if it will not be resolved.

Many case studies have proven and have come up a number of reasons why there is an existence of such serious problem. One of these major causes is the modernization as well as the industrialization. As the technology improves, it also increases its need of energy. Eventually, the demand for energy rises. Another cause is associated with high dependency on oil imports. We only have small and limited deposit of oil and since that it is limited, it is possible that it will all be gone.

Energy crisis is a situation in which the nations suffer from disruption of energy supplies accompanied by rapidly increasing energy prices that threaten economic and national security. The threat to economic security is represented by the possibility of declining economic growth, increasing inflation, rising unemployment and loosing of those large investments. The threat to national security is represented by the inability of the Philippine Government as well as the government of the other countries to exercise foreign policy options, especially in regards to countries with substantial oil reserves.

There are so many bad effects of energy crisis that we might encounter. Some of these are: the global warming which includes the climate change, has bad effects on economic, political and even social aspects, global famine, scarcity of energy supply, increasing of illiteracy rate, emerging of many health related problems, being insufficient of those hi-tech equipments, gadgets and other electronic devices and many other more. All those bad effects are terrible that we don’t want it to happen. Not only our government had the power to solve this problem. Every individual have a very significant role that can contribute to solve this problem. All people will badly suffer if not given emphasis to solve this problem. Not only those poor people but also those rich, not only those ordinary people but even those government officials and officers will be badly affected by this problem. Let us be awakened and stop our dependence on carbon fuels and other oil. We can use other efficient energy resources aside from those petroleum products. No one can escape it so as early as now, we should do something for it to be solve. God made the earth not to be destroyed by the people but to be cared off. We, people are very blessed to have this kind of world that we are living in so in return, we should preserve and maintain its beauty for the other generation that will come.