On Feb. 15, a 150-foot asteroid buzzed by the Earth, and smaller meteors broke through the Russian sky. If the asteroid had hit the earth, it would not have been an extinction event, but it would have created a tsunami-of-a-mess. The next big one, Apophis, is expected to pass by in 2028, narrowly missing Earth. However, according to theoretical physicist Michio Kauku, it could mortally graze our atmosphere in 2036 on its backswing. After reading Jonathan Last’s “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster,” asteroids are the least of our worries.
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