Issue : World's co-operation in conservation of Energy sources

“It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy.
International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources
for future generations.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons
and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
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World, today, is one global village. We, the people of this planet, are blessed with energy resouces that are essential for us and our future generation to survive. The topic itself talks about "World's resources" and not the individual nation's resources, thus, the issue demands for the world's cooperation. Hence, I agree and strongly support that International and worldwide cooperation are essential for protecting world's energy resources for future generation.

The chief reason for for my view is that if we are out of any resource today, the whole humanity would suffer. Petroleum, for instance, is used all over the world. Right from Japan in the east to west coast of US, one cannot imagine life without Petroleum. Industrial revolution all over the world has increased our dependency on petroleum and its derivatives. But, the actual point to be noted here is that petrol is not available all over equally. Gulf countries are considered to be the prime exporters of petoleum. So, if today we argue that each nation should, by itself, conserve its resources, there might be a chance that gulf countries stop these exports to conserve petoleum for its own future generation. The whole world would be under crises if such thing ever happens.

The second reason for my argument is that if all the nations, together, think of alternative sources of energy, and try to develop these sources, this idea of working together will impart an aggressiveness and hence healthy competition. Every nation will want to have market share and hence, we can have good quality and highly competitive products available at competitive prices for the customers. For example, the development of Hybrid cars in US has lead to easy availability at affordable prices in US.

However some people might argue that the individual nations can look into the local concerns of people and choose what to conserve and what not to in a better way than World working out alternatives as one. But, this might lead to international chaos some day. For example, if a country like Sri Lanka, which can make use of water, a renewable source of energy, for generation of electricity can cooperate with a another country which is land locked and might be dependent on non-renewable resource for generation of basic need.

Hence, I conclude that World cooperation is essential today for conserving the resources for better life tomorrow.