Friend, for a 100 or more years less than 5% of the worlds population has lived as we do in the west during the last two or three decades China, India and a host of other nations have reached such levels and are now starting to gobble up resources as we have taken for granted for so very long unless changes are made - there won't be any world let alone "third world" living.
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.