They are psychologically and physically weak and their one workable trick is about to fail.
The powerful people are worried about us, about the thinking and caring people of Earth. They are worried — but not very worried — that we will discover they are weak toothless frauds.
They are so clueless that they can’t see the biggest threat that they face (or more accurately, refuse to face): their own clueless stupidity.
They pay “experts” to tell them pretty lies and then believe those lies. That climate collapse is survivable — at least for the wealthy. That they attained their privileged positions through intelligence, ability, and hard work.
We are talking about people who live in a fantasy world of their own creation, as out of touch as the weirdest qAnon believer. They think they can outsmart Natural Law.
Really, they have no chance against the wrath of Nature that they’ve unleashed, the hell on Earth that they keep feeding.
Their only hope — and it looks like a dim hope right now — is that WE roundly defeat them and stabilize our permanently damaged planet.
They need us to rescue the planet that everyone’s children will inherit without taking (justifiable) revenge against them.