>>44490902He was obsessed with overpopulation by idiots eventually depleting resources and making the planet hell. This is a real world problem.
He probably thought he could accumulate a team of people careful with resources by having such a high membership fee, but he just got a bunch of rich brats and didn't realize they were the very people he hates. This is never pointed out.
For some asinine reason he also concluded pokemon were part of the problem and had to go, crying over it.
He's a decent villain concept, but as usual Game Freak totally botched it.
I'd have just had him be a red herring and turn out to be the champion while Diantha was the Team Flare boss instead.