It must bring you great comfort to place the blame for energy use on others. Anyone and everyone who uses any petroleum based energy or products is complicit in this, not just Republicans. And don't say, well I am "green" or I conserve, that's like being a little pregnant or a little racist, you either are or you aren't and the fact that you are in the basement of your parent's house with electricity and have a computer makes you as guilty as the rest of us.
And if you decide to live off the grid, good luck finding solar panels or a wind turbine that was produced without using petroleum, since nothing like that exists. Currently 5% of our nation's energy use goes to pumping drinking water (probably more than can be generated with wind and solar), try to live off the grid by drilling a well by hand and using a hand pump for all your water needs (it's possible, but very time consuming to hand drill a well and very time consuming to hand pump and transport buckets of water to fulfill ones daily water needs, I've researched it), it is very difficult and the pump and the hand drill will need to be made of metal that was smelted using modern energy sources. Until the Left renounces their OWN use of ANY energy that was produced directly or indirectly using fossil fuels and combustion, it should be obvious to the rest of us that they are hypocrits.
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.