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Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Ok, then what else explains the long peace?

Unsustainable prosperity fueled by fossil fuels.

We had fossil fuels during both world wars.

the many men, women and children they kill daily to get it.

just because there's no colonial empires fighting each other, doesn't mean there's peace.

The number of people killed 'daily' is vastly less than it has been at any other point in history. Why is it more peaceful now?

Trade, democracy?

The Greeks and Romans had varying levels of democracy and vast trade networks for hundreds (arguably thousands) of years.

Maybe for citizens of major imperial powers, but looking at a global picture, they've regressed us to the mean.

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea... (Logarithmic scale, does not include the conflicts of the past 20 years)

For now, maybe. It only takes one escalation or a series of unfortunate mistakes for this status quo to shift dramatically, over the course of a few hours.