I suppose it does... especially when you run all over town short trips wasting gas like crazy, but then again you just existing is killing the environment. I don't really think it matters that much. If you love hte environment perhaps you should think of joining the off-grid movement, you disconnect from society's wasteful ways, you learn to live at peace with the planet, you recycle, you conserve, you generate solar power, you use septic sewer, you don't use detergents or bleached products, and you do all your shopping on amazon.com.
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.