washing ashore during a storm . He is mistaken as a possible food source for the mice ( who look much more like rats ) living there . When it is discovered he could talk , Piebald , the food processing technician , spares him , and then he tells Wheeler about how the island became overpopulated . The description is eerily similar to the mouse utopia experiment--overcrowding , a few with prestige isolated and given preferential treatment , a tyrant mouse by the name of Klaw . Basically , a tropical island paradise turned into a dystopian nightmare .
We learn that Piebald used to be a scientist warning of overpopulation-- a Paul Erlich type of character . As punishment for his prediction , he was sent to the food processing . As the episode unfolds , major riots start across the island from disaffected mice . To quell the riots , Klaw fires a prototype cannon on the population . It starts and earthquake which sinks the island killing everyone except Wheeler who has been saved by Captain Planet . Captain Planet destroys the Miceland military hardware as he flies to rescue Wheeler . While the island sinks , Piebald tells Wheeler not to let overpopulation destroy the rest of the world . At that moment , Wheeler wakes up with the Planeteers surrounding him . He was knocked on the head during the storm and dreamed the Miceland incident . But he is convinced of the dangers of overpopulation .
This episode shows the dangers of overpopulation on our ecosphere . In the ending summation of the episode , the Planeteers make the point that the population is growing exponentially , but the earth is the same size . We need to limit our population growth or become like Miceland .
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