I think that the best way is to tell people how polluting the environment and such will affect their lives. Or specifically describe to them how their actions towards the environment now will affect their children and the next generation later.
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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.