It's 2031: "the seeseepee is finished" I gloat as congress passes the biggest climate change bill ever: a law making it illegal to notice the wildfires burning down your house. China has reduced carbon emissions to less than half of what they were 10 years ago.

It's 2047: "China is about to fall" I insist as I hide in my bunker from the roaming gangs of micro plastic mutants. China now has high speed rail to even the remotest villages.

2055: "I will kill pooh with my bare hands" I laugh as I stand on the deck of the rusted battleship I've been conscripted to. What remains of the us government has conscripted everyone under the age of 75 in the epic battle against tyranny of communism.

2056: "I will work to build global communism!" I say to myself smiling as I read theory in my room in a Chinese reeducation center.