Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution is the single most important discovery for humanity in terms of educating ourselves on what it will take to sustain human life on Earth. A continuation of educating our children in blind-faith ideals is a cruel contribution to the end of civilization as we know it.

The lessons on adapting to our environment, sustainability of populations and natural selection, the basics of evolution, are critical to the future of our species. With evolution as a starting point, we can teach our children to think critically of faith-based systems that will be preached to them by society throughout their formative years. Political, social, economical and energy systems that have been passed down through generations and preached as gospel with no alternatives.

To keep telling our children to stay on the dead-end path we are currently taking is to deny them the ability to adapt. Knowledge of evolution, global warming, along with the ramifications of peak oil on the world's population and economy are essential tools that our youngest generation need in order to put them on the path of sustainability. At the Asia Pacific business forum of 2008 Ken Koyama PhD, director of the Institute of Energy Economics Japan, reported on the emerging landscape with regard to global energy security/sustainability and his report wasn't exactly filled with joy.

He cited an outlook of rising energy prices, rapidly growing demand, excessive competition for access to resources, energy supply constraints, destabilized world energy markets and peak oil as production continues an accelerated decline. In the conclusion of the report it was noted that "energy is essential to human existence" and that there are serious emerging, multiple risks to global energy security.

Never mind the price at the pumps. Over the last year those rising energy prices have been factored into our oil dependent agriculture industry and has trickled down to the world's poorest first. The United Nations reports that nearly one-eighth of the world's population is malnourished.

The rise in prices has already drawn large protests and riots in Mexico, Egypt, Senegal, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Philippines just to name a few. The staple food corn has gone up by more than 400 per cent. The price of wheat has doubled in less then a year, the price of rice has risen by as much as 70 per cent and in some countries the price of dairy and meat has more then doubled.

The U.S. Department of Energy is well aware of the impact peak oil will have as a study conducted for them in 2005 by Science Applications International states.

"The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social and political costs will be unprecedented."

Unfortunately a large portion of the current generation in power is in denial or taking a defeatist attitude when it comes to adapting to our environment. Instead we hang on by a thread to our outdated systems through oil wars, hurricanes, collapsing economies and over-pressured resources.

The current corporate political system we have put in place does not lend itself to conservation or renewable energy any more then the average person demands. We are the ones who must bring about this change through educating our children on the path we are taking and provide them with the tools they need in order to cut their own path.