Good causes

Google is now allowing its users to create themes that showcase the change they are helping to create with an application called iGoogle for Causes.

This is a good initiative, but even if the intention is fantastic, it worries me is that most causes, unfortunately, are not really a solution to the fundamental problem but a soothing of the symptoms.

I understand that the fundamental problems of war, hunger, underdevelopment, endangering nature and the planet are all direct or indirect results of western modern society's (individuals, multinationals and governments) greed and need for an ever growing production with cheap resources.

I wonder if there isn't any "cause" that addresses this directly?

As long as the fundamental problem does not disappear, a small bunch of good intentioned people will always need to reforest on one hand, while some industrial giant deforests at 10 times the speed on the other hand. That's a hard battle.

But of course, as long as we don't know how to tackle the fundamental problem, it's worth the effort to at least diminish the effects by sending money, food, medicines, doctors, teachers and scientists through all kinds of causes and networks, and hope that the global public opinion and awareness ends up overthrowing or restructuring the established system that caused the need for causes in the first place.