Utopia

Envision your perfect society in the next twenty years. What do you see?

The wars end. Defense spending is slashed down to 25 billion dollars a year, hardware like tanks and ships are sold off. A large national guard and a few 'training' corps for rapid mobilization of our national guard in the event of war is created to keep employment up but cut spending. Industry is retooled from munitions and tanks to solar thermal power plant production. Our national guard is trained in building them, and we cover Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Nevada, and SoCal with solar thermal power plants. We build a pipeline from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean that pumps sea water to these power plants. The sea water is repeatedly boiled and eventually condensed and used for irrigation projects throughout the southwest for agricultural production.

The energy is used to power homes but also is used to split water and make Oxygen and hydrogen, and then into methane and on into synthetic gasoline and diesel which is distributed as a cheap fuel for automobiles across the country.

Next, we dredge out large portions of Gulf and South East coasts into dykes and use them as flood/hurricane buffers while simultaneously using the space for raising fish, growing algae for rocket fuel (to help our orbital tether and lunar colonization mission along), and more solar thermal power plants and desalinization plants.

Begin refilling the aquifers and lakes with our water. Americans now are set for jobs, fuels, electricity, food, and fresh water for the next ten generations. They no longer need to bully the world for anything since they can make it all for themselves. National security and prosperity is reached, and America is free to spend its labor kicking out spics and niggers and replacing all its agriculture with automated greenhouses and reducing the cost of having children so that its white population can boom up to a billion or two. Sorry, China, this isn't your century after all! </dream>