The Planetary Situation Could Be:

Earth is upset with the negative elites who have been sabotaging and truncating humanity's potential for eons.

Earth is also upset with the surface population, who are far too high maintenance.  The surface population causes widespread abuse to the animal kingdom and Earth on a second-to-second basis.

Earth understands that the negative elites and the negative entities they work with in large part turned the surface population into parasites.  Earth, however, doesn't appreciate being abused by the surface population, regardless of who's to blame. 

Many well-meaning people desire depopulation, which is what the negative elites desire.  The negative elites desire depopulation in order to keep the surface population under their thumb while masquerading as 'saving the planet.'  Well-meaning people desire depopulation as a genuine desire to save the planet.

The hypocrisy of well-meaning people who desire depopulation is that they themselves would not step in line to be the ones to die.  The negative elites of course also would not step in line to die because they believe themselves to be the rightful rulers of Earth.  Of course the negative elites are NOT the rightful rulers of Earth.  Earth was never meant to be ruled.

Which is more evil?  The surface population, who has caused and continues to cause immense suffering to the animal kingdom and to the planet, or the negative elites, who caused the surface population to become abusive in this way?  The negative elites would be doing Earth a favor by drastically reducing the population.  Yet, if the negative elites were removed, suppressed technologies would quickly be made available to the surface population so that the surface population would no longer have to abuse Earth and the animal kingdom to continue on their path.  Earth's population could be far greater in number than it currently is with the right technologies (replicators for food and so forth) without needing to abuse Earth and the animal kingdom.

Perhaps there are/were those in the federations who believed the surface population was more to blame than the negative elites - that the surface population was/is the primary problem, and the negative elites the secondary problem.  Perhaps not.  Hopefully not.  The negative elites of course point the finger at the surface population with every fiber of their being.  If the majority of the surface population became aware of the negative elites, they would point the finger at the negative elites with every fiber of their being.

Earth could lose patience and simply eradicate both the surface population and the negative elites through unstoppable mega-cataclysms.  Or, Earth may have enough patience to see that, for the most part, only the negative elites are removed, agreeing to continue being abused a while longer for a larger picture.

(I may not be accurate in assessing the situation because I lack sufficient intel, but this is what my intuition led me to write.)