>>41612541Eh, kinda sounds like they got it ass backwards.
You want Pokemons can prosper, so you flood the world/region? Congrats, now you have a bunch of drowned pokes, how prosperous.
You want to progress humanity, so you expand the land? Now there is a bunch of free real estate without anything on it, no resources, no plant life, a fucking wasteland, how prosperous.
Using the whole flood the world/expand the land thing as a means to some other lofty goals sounds like they didn't really knew how to proceed and followed a first idea some grunt dropped in the meeting. There are other better ways toward those goals.
On the other hand, if your goal itself is to flood the world/expand the land, there are no such problems, your actions directly follow your ideology, everything else is just an excuse to make grunts feel like they are doing something meaningful instead of following a rambling madman.