Because the world is using them at breakneck speed. With a mere 3% of industrial economic expansion in the world every year you can imagine how quickly we will have squandered every natural resource and we will all have to start rummaging through the rubbish to survive before we know it.
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.