Yeah, climate change is 2), also 100 people can’t get along enough to set up the most basic framework on a new planet... Perhaps he simply doesn’t like people much. He wouldn’t be the first. :)

And yeah, I used to have a much higher tolerance of the dick-waving of theme 1), and now I’m a lot pickier in that I view it as juvenile ego display and I wish its participants at least had the maturity to be a little embarrassed about it and paper over it a bit. God, but I’m old and grumpy! What a curmudgeon.