Perhaps it's not about any fix in particular N, but as before about raising consciousness - of correctly aiming our view, our values and our motivation. So that as each single issue/situation arises we respond to it from a wise and compassionate perspective rather than a selfish one.
Buddhist teaching suggests that most of the suffering in the world follows from selfishness, or ego. And the attendant belief that there's not enough to go around. (the most basic Buddhist teaching there is - 'the four noble truths'.
If I was to draw on that to theorise about what holds us locked in our self imposed suffering it's surely the culture of selfishness we've as a result of this built over the years. Just about all of the so called wisdom taught by family, schools, entertainment, myths, popular culture and society as said before embodies the principle of rule of the fittest, the idea that you've got to put the other guy down to get ahead; that the only reason to cooperate is to help family or to put others too strong for you to deal with alone down. That and the delusion that happiness follows from material wealth.
The alternative is to live from love and compassion. To empathise so much with others to the point that we put their interests first. Just think of it. In a world where everybody thinks this way self interested actions become unnecessary, and solutions are automatically shared decisions. Love becomes the motivation rather than fear.
Many of us can theorise about this, but very few can live it. And in a world where most are selfish those that do will suffer for it unless they are very skilful in the way they do it.
The big issue for me is the culture. Not only do we have to overcome the above, we also have to overcome lifetimes of selfish conditioning.
When we can find it in ourselves to act against our culture and conditioning it can be amazing how well things turn out for everybody - it's not as crazy as it sounds. But it's so hard to be that warrior, to act from our heart.
So my vote is for actions that most effectively will change the prevailing dog eat dog culture. Maybe it's happening already. There's certainly plenty of information out there, if not that much committed action. Maybe we need things to intensify, for the situation to become more of a do or die one for large scale movement to develop to change the way things are done.
Trouble is that when faced with such a situation the old culture dictates that we fight for a diminishing pie. So we've a lot of work to do. A lot of speaking out, a lot of showing an example, of standing up to be counted.
Management research suggests that the hardest thing of all is to change is culture. (the shared pattern of conditioned beahaviour) Company after company gets faced with changed market conditions that require new behaviours, tries to change over many years, and finds itself imprisoned by its culture. Its workers and management will destroy the company rather than change - all the while rationalising their positions.
If change occurs its usually only when all concerned find themselves facing imminent annihilation, if at all. Here's hoping the wake up call that finally gets through to humanity en mass comes in a form we can respond to....
Eckhardt Tolle's new book 'A New Earth' seems to set out a very similar view and is well worth the read too along with the Chogyam Trungpa book (Shambhala the Sacred Path of the Warrior) mentioned by Alysia and on the other thread, but in a lot more detail. (I've not got past the first few pages yet)