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When energy is found all around us, markets starts to flourish, whether small or big, close or far away, poor or rich. A new life emerges with a flavor of welfare, cross-continent journeys and Great-Wall-of-China long lists of purchases in a bid to achieve sustainable development. However, the lack of resources may sometimes bring energy with a taste of gunpowder to spread destruction. As the world depends on various major energy resources of oil, natural gas and coal, other clean supplies in aquatic, wind and solar forms are growing to relieve the Earth from the effect of irrational uses of power. For long decades, poisonous gases have been emitted to kill 2.5 million people in developing countries, according to World Health Organization statistics. The civilization we participate in constructing is loaded with carbon, seen wherever urbanization is found. This gas is obvious over our factories, out of our cars, above our trains and making arches out of our planes which our children try in vain to follow to the end. We have moved from low-energy societies relying on animals to high-energy ones depending heavily on spontaneous combustion engines. In addition, energy evidently influences our minute details, such as the rise in cost of food, clothes and travel tickets. Unstable prices of oil could be too low to fill the pockets of importing countries and industrial companies, or suddenly too high to benefit producers. The phenomenon of consumption could mount to an 'avid' level in which the marketplace devours most of the budgets of states. The consumptive spending in Asia is expected to reach $32 trillion by the end of 2030, making up 43% of global consumption, according to the Asian Development Bank in New Delhi. The present article investigates the effect of energy on markets, sustainable development and life quality. It also looks into our carbonic civilization which has made us submissive slaves to machinery.
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