The Nightmare Life Without Fuel

THE NIGHTMARE LIFE WITHOUT FUEL
[Written by: Issac Asimov (1920-1992)]
Major theme: - To draw the attention of concerned authority and all about the fuel/energy crisis in near future and to encourage to use non-renewable resources wisely.
In this essay the writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) deals with problem of fuel crises and draws our attention to the issue of conserving fuel. The major thrust (focus) of this essay is what is going to happen if we don’t conserve the world natural resources. Throughout the essay the writer depicts the nightmare life without the fuel. In this essay the writer portrays the American life during late 1990 when Americans were having horrible problem by the fuel crises. Because of the fuel crises in 1997 the prices of the fuel raised high and only very rich people can have the car. Life was worse outside the city area in the suburb area as due to the fuel crises the people living in suburbs used to push carts. If the road was blocked due to the snow storm, they suffered more. They couldn’t buy a lot of food at one time and they couldn’t use the refrigerator either. Because of the difficulty of the distribution of the food, Americans were forced to eat less.
The situation of the people outside America was worse. Not more than 20% of population has enough food to eat. The first and for most helpless victim of this starvation were babies after their mothers had gone dry because of the lack of nutrition.
About 40% of the people manage to little to keep their bodies working but that provide to be not enough for their brain. Those people were alive but they were permanently brain-damaged under nutrition. Moreover because of the fuel crises there were no more armies because they were expensive can consumed a lot of energy. The writer calls armies “The Expensive, energy gobbling monstrosities”.
The writer further depicts the nightmare life without fuel by informing that machines most be replaced by the humans bodies because of the fuel crises .People worked like machine and they had less free time. In fact they didn’t need more free time because they couldn’t enjoy T.V, movie and news book for a long time .work, Sleep and Eating had became the most important aspects of their life according to the writer the day had almost returned to the day of 18th century to the day before machine, industry, technology and the population of the world was going to be reduced from 5.5 billion to 1 billion because of hunger, diseases and starvation.
The writer concludes his essay by saying that now in such a situation the American could do nothing to prevent all this disaster, But if they would have started earlier, it would have been easy.


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The Nightmare Life Without Fuel
-Isaac Asimov
“The Nightmare Life Without Fuel” is an essay, which depicts the life of this world in coming future when the fuel resources will have reduced from their source. The main thrust of this essay is: what is going to happen if we do not conserve the world’s natural resources. Asimov focuses on a specific problem that will arise by the lack of fuels. This whole world is run by different resources such as petrol, diesel, water, wood, etc. We cannot imagine this world without the use of fuel. In comparison to the past days, we are now facing the problem of scarcity of fuel resources. Earlier these resources were found in large quantity and life style was easier.
As the fuel resources were abundantly found, every sector was found running successfully and easily. Factories, industries, transportation, great organizations, etc. were in proper condition. People didn’t have problem of scarcity of fuel resources. But slowly and gradually population growth increased and brought bad consequences. Agricultural lands occupied by huge buildings and industries. Also, the number of vehicles also increased. Due to the maximum use of the resources, human life has been in discomfort. Human beings feel that their lives are really unsecured. They always have fear that they will lose work and food. They think that they are themselves responsible for causing scarcity of resources. As they are less conscious of their future, they suffer because of the destruction of the resources. Most of them claim that they will have new resources invented. Of course, new resources such as nuclear energy and solar power have been discovered but they are very dangerous and also expensive in use. People know that their pleasures are in danger and also their future is dark. Coming generations will suffer more than us.
Asimov focuses on the decreasing resources of fuel in the world. The life will be full of struggle without fuel resources. This world will slowly go dark, as less lighting bulbs will be there in the streets. Electrical appliances will be used less as there will also be scarcity of electricity. Even luxurious provisions and equipments will be impossible. More time will be taken to do simple work also as there won’t be any vehicle running in the streets. There will be difficulty in transportation and accumulation of required foodstuffs. Due to the shortage of food, people will die due to starvation and malnutrition. Due to lack of proper balanced diet, there will be problem in human brains. Child death rate will increase, as children will be deprived of proper nutritious and body building food. Specially, simple towns, suburbs will be affected much. These areas depend upon transportation for all kinds of things. They will be in danger of extinction. Every human activity will be minimized due to less light, heat, and less comfort.
Security forces will also be affected badly. Without the use of weapons, military forces will be purposeless. Their work will end because they can’t work without fuel. They use scientific weapons, which are operate with fuel and are very expensive. Only the technically strong countries will be able to exercise their military power if fuel is saved in time. Factory workers will be jobless as industries and factories will be closed. So, it will be very difficult for them to provide basic needs to their family also.
Only small benefits will be there due to lack of fuel. The environment will be fresh, cool and pure. Crime rates will decrease. People will understand the importance of nature and will go attached with it. People will be cooperative, as all of them will be facing same problem. They will keep themselves warm using sweaters and other thick clothes only.
The writer tries to warn us from the devastating situation of this world in the coming future. If we are not serious at present only, we have to suffer a lot in the future. We must t understand the importance of the nature and try to conserve it. The world is depending upon the trade and because of trade the environment is being neglected. People are living in the cities and the environment of the cities is polluted. Major population of world should be engaged to plant the trees to make a better world in future. We cannot use the solar easily and even if we use, it cannot naturally help us. But if we preserve the jungle, our environment and energy will be improved.