IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY – LIFE WITH ELECTRICITY

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The world is changing rapidly. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age today we are living in an ultra-modern era where things we never imagined earlier have become vital necessities in our life. For example, light in those ages was to be got only from the sun for a limited part of the day. But now we have electricity for all-time use. Thanks to Thomas Alva Edison who by inventing electricity illuminated the whole world.

IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY

Now we can’t think of life without electricity. In big cities, everything depends on it. We find ourselves completely paralyzed whenever there is a power failure in our area. Electricity provides all the comforts of life and life would be completely different in its absence.

We would have to use earthen lamps, lanterns, or candlelight instead of electric bulbs and tubes like now. If there would have been no electricity, people would not have so many luxuries like coolers, air conditioners, refrigerators, room-heaters, and other electric appliances.

The kitchen would not have been so well-equipped. The medical field would not have been so rich if there were no electricity. We would not have the facilities of x-ray, heart-surgery, and electric treatment. As a result, the patients would have to bear the heat of summer and cold of winter along with their medical problems.

Festivals especially Diwali would not have been so bright with a series of  bulbs sans electricity. The shopping centers nowadays attract people with their colorful lights. And when we enter there, it seems as if we have entered a fairyland.

In case there was no electricity we would not have the glamour that is there nowadays. In earlier days, people had to work hard no matter if in scorching heat or in biting cold, if they did not have the boon of electricity. Instead of electric fans, people would have been using hand fans for getting relief from the heat.

And what is more, if there were no electricity, there would have been no cinemas, no radios, no television, no computers, and no internet. Life would have not been the same sans these things. It is the age of science and technology which gives employment to many. In the absence of electricity, we would not have known about them. Our civilization would not have flourished so much and so rapidly without electricity.

Our transportation system is also based on electricity to a great extent and in case of no electricity, we would not have enjoyed the fast journey by electric trains. Railway stations would have been turned into dark, dull places. Needless to say that nowadays these are the most attractive venues with all the time activity and credit goes to electricity. Our industries are in existence only due to electricity. If it were not there, people would have been unaware of industrialization.

Thus, electricity has become the basic need of our life. There is no exaggeration if we say that where there is light there is life. But we should value it as a resource that has to be used carefully and wisely not to be taken as a complete boon.

 

By:  Ammara Siddique

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One Response to “IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY – LIFE WITH ELECTRICITY”

  • Greg Marlow says:

    I got a real feel for how easy electricity has made our modern life while exercising on an exercise bike I made out of an electric generator and an old bicycle. I generate 120 watts for 15 minutes and get just as winded as in a two mile jog. I imagined having to do a two mile jog every time I ran a 120 watt appliance for 15 min or a 60 watt appliance for 30 minutes. That is how easy electricity has made our lives. The energy comes from oil, coal, gas, or nuclear sources but electricity lets us use that energy in so many ways.

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