They were already awful. Only a few can be saved. Put all the people living in awful countries in good countries and then the good countries turn awful. There's way too many people.
I remember that. He said that because there's no central authority in Islam it means that there's no one position, but the founding texts are pretty clear on it.
For the first one I'll give you two different translations of that verse.
Neither of those two nor the unsourced one you provided say anything about "plant fertilization", it sounds like some kind of explanation of how rain happens. Note that they don't even mention clouds, but just a vague...