If this is truly the case, then there is no way to win. If that is the case, it is the most hopeless case of all, and it would be worse to survive that catastrophe and live in the world that is left over then it would be to die and be relieved of it. Don't you think?

also, it doesn't really help the elites. Killing off the obedient majority and leaving only the disobedient rebels would not make their world an easier place.