Asteroid warning: Billions of people will die in asteroid impact

According to the National Research Council, some 91 people will die in an asteroid event each year.

Bryan Walsh, author of the new book End Times, which looks at the existential threats which plague our planet, explained in his new book: “But of course those 91 people did not die last year and it’s unlikely that 91 people will be killed by an asteroid next year.”

The figure will slowly build up over hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years, until all of them are wiped out at once.

Mr Walsh continued: “It means that at some point – unless we develop an impregnable asteroid defence system – we can expect that millions or even billions of people will die in one major impact event.