What do we do with Near-Earth Asteroids?

So what do we do about asteroids heading to Earth? As a Pagan I believe nature has its right to live without us interfering. If an asteroid is heading to Earth I say let it impact. Humans will survive and it could do great and disasterous things to our world. I am not all about disasters but I believe we should prepare ourselves on our planet instead of trying to change things with a nuke. What happens if they hit it with a nuke and it spreads out and hits all of America? Here is the article from Space.com http://www.space.com/21333-asteroid-nuke-spacecraft-mission.html: All credit for this little article to them.

"If a dangerous asteroid appears to be on a collision course for Earth, one option is to send a spacecraft to destroy it with a nuclear warhead. Such a mission, which would cost about $1 billion, could be developed from work NASA is already funding, a prominent asteroid defense expert says. 

Bong Wie, director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center at Iowa State University, described the system his team is developing to attendees at the International Space Development Conference in La Jolla, Calif., on May 23. The annual National Space Society gathering attracted hundreds from the space industry around the world.

An anti-asteroid spacecraft would deliver a nuclear warhead to destroy an incoming threat before it could reach Earth, Wie said. The two-section spacecraft would consist of a kinetic energy impactor that would separate before arrival and blast a crater in the asteroid. The other half of the spacecraft would carry the nuclear weapon, which would then explode inside the crater after the vehicle impacted"

I have a problem with this not only on the monetary side of things. Yet we are trying to change something that could end up happening 100 times a year then what are we going to do? If we allow nature to take its course I believe that is the will of the Gods. I am not one to leave all things to the Gods but when it is coming to the Universe I do. 

We put all our money into prevention with big powerful weapons when we could build shelters alot cheapter than that. But not only that we could be putting alot more money into Sciences to go into space and easily redirecting if we wanted too. We need to start pushing our lawmakers of all countries into putting more money into space so we can get to other planets like our own easily. Yes I am confused on why they don't put more money into things we could be doing and instead we put $1 billion for a nuke. It is all about us and how we educate our children and teaching them that science and mathematics is where our true future lies.