Fossil fuel & sustainable development

Abstract

Discovery of fossil fuel has increased the rate of satisfying human needs at a rapid rate and also the varieties of human needs. This discovery has focused only on physical dimension of the development to fulfill the desires of five physical organs of human. This oil burning development has created chaotic problems to the world. Fossil fuel depletion, environmental pollution, natural disasters and socio economic unevenness have become the most challengeable problems to be faced by present world. It takes a million years to the formation phase of fossil fuels, but unfortunately the severe exploitation makes it last for only centuries, making it diminished from the world in the near future. The development of fossil fuel technologies has made the renewable power resource to be redundant as well. At the same time it exceeds the rate of formation of resources like water and trees. Final result would be a world of depleted resources and accumulated waste. Modern technology has a narrow perspective when it is applied to this problem. It provides solutions for only limited aspects of the problem like increasing the efficiency of an engine. But we are in a turning point to find a holistic solution for this problem, i.e. to apply the theory of natural cyclicity. Cyclicity is to adopt the cyclic behavior in the nature to the development. This paper aims on discussing the adoption of cyclicity concept in a holistic manner including energy to achieve sustainability.