I've come to understand that

the morality and relational well-being of mankind cannot be reconciled through the means of politics.  This does not mean no government
is needed.

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved
    by the level of thinking that created them."

in any case, any chapter of history since the dawn of time ought
to suffice as either proof or evidence.

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>>5

You just did it. You enunciated that when you said "the problems..." you meant "the processes that create problems".

To which I don't know for sure that I have a solution because it's very vague. Which processes do you see as causing problems?

But, to go out on a limb, I'll suggest that almost any problem you can suggest could be fixed by cutting the human population in half over the course of the next 40 years, which is well within human capabilities.

IMHO, all human problems are caused by poverty, poverty is just another word for scarcity, and since (unlike some science-fictionalists on this board) I don't believe in any rational probability of the sudden appearance of resources just in the nick of time to save our sorry asses, the only way to reduce scarcity is to control the other side of the equation, the one we can control: demand.

There are two ways to reduce demand: reduce the number of users of X, or increase the efficiency with which X is used while the number of users remains the same (as suggested earlier in some other thread). But as Thomas Malthus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthus) explained 250 fucking years ago, this will never happen: as efficiency increases, accessibility increases, therefore the number of users increases. Sometimes rises in efficiency actually increase scarcity. Therefore, the only rational solution to poverty (which I define as the root of all human problems), is a reduction of the number of users to all resources, i.e., depopulation. The better you want to make the world, the more you have to depopulate it (to some hypothetical minimum wherein the population can no longer maintain societal complexity [e.g., Collapse, a la J. Diamond] necessary to ensure resource production).

So yeah, I would say that all of humanity's problems are within our ability to solve... but it does depend on the crux of presuming all of humanity's ills are the result of poverty. There are other perspectives. Some people think we're just fucking evil monsters who will kill and kill until there's no-one left to skull fuck, whether we've got enough twinkies and coca-cola or not.