I think misuse and overuse of science and technology is threating human society and this planet. Some of them are.
1. Global Warming, which is a side effect of new innovations.
2. Humanoids : Robots which will develop there own intelligence with time.
3. Internet : It will too add to a number of social problems, right now its just the beginning.
6. Stress created by our new lifestyle, which is behind terrorism.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.