Energy war and Colonialism

This is an accepted fact today that any development require energy. Our cultural joyride from primitive times to the most modern times have been fuelled by availability of enormous amount of organic fuels. But like every good things, this reserve is poised to end. At this stage of advancement and current pace of growth rate, the requirements for energy is liker never before. But the end of this natural gift is quite before our eyes. This aspect has multifaceted bearings on our society. The major concerns of world economics and politics today is spinning around fast ending oil reserves. If we look back at the last century, we get almost every event directly or indirectly related to the power play for energy. Since the early decades of colonization to the later decades of world wars, the powerful nations has one thing in mind, capturing energy reserves. They knew that one who would capture these reserves would rule the world in the days to come. Then came the era of freedom. Colonies started getting freed. Hence there was a race to develop and exist with the already developed and strong nations. The world was ravaged by the havocs of two world wars. There was lot to build and regain. These two factors led to an unparalleled growth rate. This required lots of energy. The vast reserves of energy started flowing to the extremes of the world to satisfy the quenching demand to grow. What was missing here was a farsightedness. No one gave a serious thought to the issue of a world with exhausted energy reserves. The energy rich nations kept pumping out the resources to trade and other nations kept buying to compete. At the same time there were a few nations who were not happy with this setup. They knew that this energy is not merely a trade item but a form absolute power. The only way to achieve this was to renew the era of colonialism. What the British Empire and other European nations had rivaled for in fifteenth century, there was a need to revisit the same concept. But the world was not ignorant today. With the advancements of media and a stronger concept of nationalism, it was not at all easy for modern superpowers to carry out similar accessions. This gave rise to an era of diplomatic colonialism. The later half of the last century saw several examples. The regular interference of superpowers in the internal affairs of West Asia is not without a reason. The prime focus here is quite obviously the major chunk of world energy resources. While the superpowers has slowly militarised this area, other nations have started getting skeptic of their concerns. Many of the national governments are mere puppets in the hands of this superpower. The story does not end here. Military force is not the only and deadly tactic against the world order, diplomacy plays a yet more vital role. In the race to develop, every nation is an enemy of the other. Added to this there are land disputes, cultural disputes and the monster of population looming over the so called developing and under developed nations. This has allowed the industrialized nations to play nasty politics with the region and made their task easier. The days are not far when we would wake up to the beginning of a new era of colonialism. The form would be much more severe and effects long lasting.