Hedging is like insurance against improbable events. Some people, though, have been known to commit insurance fraud.
Only if you look forward to living through it, or your offspring suffering more/sooner.
Except the elite won't suffer.
In times of upheaval, musical chairs will be played. As a group, the elite stand little to gain from that.
Except the elite enjoy the status quo.
Your missing the point of view of a large component of GOP support in the USA - if one views the apocalypse as a desired result to per Revelations in the Old Testament, then the second coming of Jesus occurs and the apocalypse happening in Israel is a prerequisite. Cabinet members going back to the Reagan administration openly said this was why the EPA needed to expedite the extraction of mineral resources.