# Redirecting asteroids on an impact course by momentum transfer **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 17, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirecting-asteroids-on-an-impact-course-by-momentum-transfer/804718 "2017-12-17T16:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirecting-asteroids-on-an-impact-course-by-momentum-transfer/804718/40 "2017-12-18T19:14:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Or not. We are already facing civilization altering levels of AGW and sizeable fractions of at least the US populace cannot agree the problem is real. Despite multiple decades of supporting data and PR effort to educate them. Maybe so. The giant asteroid is more tangible and it only takes a single nation’s effort to redirect it. If the entire USA switched to EVs in 5 years, it wouldn’t make a dent in the AGW problem. (it might buy a few more years until the 2 degrees C limit is reached, but then again, it would lower the market price for automobile fuel worldwide and people in other nations would respond by using even more of it) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirecting-asteroids-on-an-impact-course-by-momentum-transfer/804718)._