Abstract:
Objective of this paper is to study the reality of sustainable development. It is important
to study the sustainability of development and to evaluate the possibility of achieving it
before the sustainability of its driving mechanism, which is energy, is evaluated.
Atpresent the measures of the development are evaluated by energy indicators and
environmental indicators, like energy intensity and carbon foot print. Today issues like
resource scarcity and other environmental issues are to be assessed by these indicators
whereas the inability to quantify the impacts of development using these indicators is
considered as a nonstandard practice among the scientific community. Evaluation of the
present global impacts due to development using these physical indicators which assess
the material impact is questionable. Therefore it is to study the reality of evaluation of
development using these indicators and to shift the development and energy from these
narrow limits.
