Malthus like most people of limited intelligence and vision was just another failed evangelist who depended on scaring people into giving him money to save then from them selves con men have through out history. Intelligent people when face with a potential problem first research it to determine if it is a real problem or not. Then they develop a functional solution.
Evangelists on the other hand feel that every minor problem is an end of the world issue and they run around asking everybody else to give them money to fix the problem with. But the problem is like AGW a problem of perception caused by an education to limited to allow them to see this, so they run around like chicken little asking people to give them lots of money to solve the problem with so they can improve their personal life style just like a religious evangelist does. So we have religious evangelists that want to save your soul and political evangelists that want to save the world and they both have the same thing ... more.
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.