I think the direction we'll eventually need to go is up, not down, but a cool poem. I had an idea about humanlike robots that have to raise test-tube babies to near adulthood before releasing them on automated shuttles to inhabit a new planet. The only thing we could protect from cosmic rays for a ten thousand year journey were some eggs...
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.