The first hundred settlers on Mars immediately start to terraform the landscape, despite the ecological protests of a few "Red" Martians ...
Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (New York: Bantam Spectra, 1994)
The newly prosperous colony decides to revolt against the homeplanet's sovereignty, initiating a bloody civil war ...

The surface water freezes as a result of all this devastation, leaving a chastened people to make their homes in the permafrost.

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