Dark Night: Africa

World developing fast and all continent are racing toward great success but Africa continent lagging behind. Why ? Reasons are many.. some controllable some not but who is responsible. Our human history begin from Africa but it is still a History. Snail speed development hit Africa. There are many thing to discuss but Energy poverty is major problem in near future. Energy Poverty (word given by Robert A. Freling , director of SELF.org)

What is Energy Poverty?

Energy poverty exacts its toll on the health, education, food and livelihoods of the world’s poorest people.

• Health Clinics go without lighting and medical equipment and without refrigeration for vaccines and anti-venom serum for yellow fever, polio, tetanus, whooping cough, and hepatitis A and B to keep alive and potent.
• Schools go without dependable lighting to gain greater knowledge and well being.
• Community knowledge: connectivity by radio and telephone is power-constrained.
• Agricultural production is hindered by lack of irrigation systems and precious day-light hours are lost to traditional fuel-gathering making economic progress nearly impossible.
• Lighting homes with kerosene lamps, which give dim and wavering light, emit cancer-causing smoke, and cause thousands of devastating house fires every year. In contrast, light produced by solar power is clean, steady, bright, and safe
• Surface Water is dangerously contaminated with disease-carrying waste and agricultural runoff.
• Micro-Enterprise is severely hampered as nightfall comes at about 6:30 p.m. year-round, effectively ending the productive work day.
• Urban Migration: The explosive growth of cities in developing nations is straining the natural environment and overwhelming social service systems.
• Global Warming: Families rely on kerosene for lighting and add 600 pounds of heat trapping carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. Villages that rely on diesel generators add many tons more.

While searching on Google i found that 650 million people in sub-Saharan Africa would be without electricity by 2030.
this is only one problem that i put forward but to bring Africa in race many more thing s has to be done. IF you look Africa from space you can easly see the twinkling light all over the continent but over the africa you hardly see any light see the above picture: (Dekha kya)

World, searching for space in Mars and Moon but they ignoring Earth. U.S and other developed country have overpowered many thing they, defeated technology in many ways, and going leap and bound. We people are saying that we are super power but we cant feed poor people, people still dying out of malaria: how we can say that we are super power in all field, you will surprised to know that every year 6millions children dies only due to malnutrition......

New era called: E.C.E

E.C.E : Energy Climate Era : The era of Petrodictatorship, Climate change, Energy Poverty ,Biodiversity loss.


Affluenza:

Affluenza is a term used by critics of consumerism, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza. Sources define this term as follows:

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf ^[1])

affluenza, n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by the pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. (PBS [1]) ( from Wikipedia)

You may heard this word for the first time but some where this word keeps you thinking for while that where we(World) are going what we want to achieve by destroying or beautiful world called EARTH. Where we will go after that. Thomas Friedman describe in his new book (HOT,FLAT, and CROWDED) about two small cities of world DOHA and DALINA both just in millions but there energy consumption is like big developed city, here people like to eat popcorn at bed time in night this is just example of two example of two small city but there are many more cities who are copying life style of America...............