That's the point. By taking contemporary issues and projecting them into a potential future scenario, the aim is to offer a warning about possible consequences if current events remain unchanged. In that sense it's more like prophecy than prediction.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
