Contribution of Solar Energy towards Sustainable Development: An Overview

Nature has endowed mankind with the potential of renewable and non renewable resources. Both the resources could provide energy in the form of electricity, fuel, manure, etc. with equal efficiency. However, the renewable resources are more sustainable in comparison to the non renewable resources. This paper provides the importance of conservation of nature enshrined in our religious texts. It affirms that these principles are part of the natural law and could serve a lot towards sustainable conservation of nature and its resources. The paper provides advantages and disadvantages of the solar energy, the solar appliances widely used these days in order to show case the utility of solar energy and its potential in comparison to the conventional sources of energy. It concludes that the use of solar energy in future would help in conservation of forest, wild life, mineral resources and be a long term gain to contain pollution.