What did Miig mean when he said, “But the powers that be still refused to change and bent the already stopped under the whips of a schedule made for a population twice its size and inflated by the need to rebuild.”

There was an apocolypse, “And all those pipelinesin the ground? They snapped like icicles and spewed bile over forests, into lakes, drowning whole reserves and towns."

The livable environments left were exploited by people who refused to change their ways. Soon this land became depleted and dead.