[The ruined alternate world backstory, well, a skeleton's poker face can be pretty good without all those pesky muscles to give micro-expressions. But in another feat of not being a human skeleton, his eyebrows rise with each additional (clearly capitalized) adjective of The Event.]

That sounds unspeakably bad. At least a factor of three in badness. I suppose you might be onto something after all! The sky was only red around sunrise and sunset, and only polluted near pollution factories... And the cities I visited were not so rubbly.

[Not that he visited many personally, but with modern advancements in computing technology there'd been a lot of video calls and live rivers and other photographic evidences of more of the surface. Some rubble, yes, but nothing so superlative inspiring.]