Clean Energy

In my last post Resource Depletion and Green Economics I have mention how the human race is depleting the environmental resources and ruining the eco-system. But the awareness is been developing since last two decade, and the concept of sustenance of natural and environmental resources are introduced. Developed countries are finding alternative resources of the energy so that the dependence on oil and other carbon emitting fuels like coal which is considered to be the major contributing factor of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and dependence on nuclear energy (Sometimes, this less comprehensive meaning of "alternative energy" excludes nuclear energy as defined in the Michigan Next Energy Authority Act of 2002) can be reduced.

Against conventional resources the alternative resources of energy are given the name of Clean Energy Resources. These clean energy resources will not only help to protect the eco-sys but they will also create new jobs. Against energy resources like fossil fuels there are many other clean resources of energy like water, wind and solar energy. Renewable energy sources such as biomass are sometimes regarded as an alternative to ecologically harmful fossil fuels. Renewables are not inherently alternative energies for this purpose. For example, the Netherlands, once leader in use of palm oil as a biofuel, has suspended all subsidies for palm oil due to the scientific evidence that their use "may sometimes create more environmental harm than fossil fuels.

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Resource Depletion and Green Economics

Hello friends I am back with a newer post about the depletion of natural resources and introduction of Green Economics. This is first of the serial of posts that I am going to share with you. Our world’s natural resources are depleting due to excessive extraction to feed the needs of the capitalistic giant, and the rate of extraction of resources is increasing day by day and if we will continue to do so sooner the scarcity of resources will become so swear that we will have to pay it at the cost of existence of our future generations. This excessive extraction of natural resources is also disturbing our ecological system. Due to massive carbon emissions on one side the ambient quality of eco-sys is decreased but it has highly reduced its assimilative capacity. So we have to do inter-temporal decisions by trading off between our needs and future generations. So the concept of Green Economics is introduced.

The concept of Green Economics don’t only relates to the survival of environment by drowning the economy. It tells us how we should take our economy along with the eco-system. But it requires a great effort on the part of all of us because the process of transformation of a system always requires the mental and physical efforts of the agents of that system. Green Economics talks about the introduction of positive alternatives in the all areas and each sector of the economy. In economics the concepts of social cost and social benefits are already familiar, for example to reduce the emissions the governments can put emission taxes on the producers as social cost so that the damage done by emissions could be recovered and due to these taxes the producers will also reduce the emissions. On the other hand to some extent reduced emissions also mean reduced resource depletion. This can happen in many ways but I will discuss two of them.

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