Why would that be? Musk's dream of a Mars colony seems easier than trying to co-ordinate that 1.5C global warming plan or prevent myriad of other apocalypse scenarios. It seems pretty intuitive two planets are better than one. Thinking from Musk's perspective, as a proud Homo sapiens who "must secure the existence of our people and a future for ~~white~~ human children", will he have better luck trying to prevent global warming by coordinating a global (including China and India) response, or starting a company to reach Mars by himself? Surely it's the second one.

Yeah, cracks me up with people wanting to terraform mars. If we can terraform mars, we can terraform earth and stop the greenhouse effect.