Opinion - Generation Z--Last Hope???

The age of iPod, MP3s, Web 2.0, social networking and citizen journalism coincide with the rise of Generation Z.  According to GenerationZ.com.au, these are people born from 1995 to the end of 2009.  However, an entry from Wikipedia.org states that "the term has been used to refer to today's newborns, but is used more often to refer to people born after the year 2008."

Only one thing is certain regardless of what is defined about this population, Generation Z is humanity's salvation--and the leaders of today will make or break the ability of this generation to further human existence (or the life we have become accustomed to).

To Dr. James Martin, technologist, futurist, and author, Generation Z is the "transition generation".  Dr. Martin writes on "The Meaning of the 21st Century": 

Alongside the aforementioned positive milestones of this century are the inescapable phenomenon that are slowly becoming humanity's greatest challenges.

There is the ongoing food crisis, which many experts believe would prevail; the rise in oil prices, which brings about a global effect of unmatched proportion, and; the more important issue of global warming, which despite unequivocal evidence for still begets claims against this phenomenon.

The decisions we make in the next five to ten years are critical to the survival of our way of life, if not our species, mainly because these decisions will greatly affect the future correlation of humans and their environment ie the ability of the next generation to adapt to nature, and concurrently, nature's capacity to provide for humans.