Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault is receiving this week thousands of new seeds that will push its collection to more than half a million unique samples, making it the most diverse assemblage of crop diversity ever amassed anywhere in the world.
I found this article to be very interesting and thoroughly troubling. Essentially, this building/structure/whatever is a kind of botanical 'Noah's Arc'. Amid the growing fears of mutual destruction and the escalation of the Cold War arms race, this organization was charged with ensuring the continuance of Earth's many and varied Fauna. A noble aim, to be sure, but an aim that is none the less prompted by our own specie's amazing capacity to destroy our own planet. Esentialy this 'Noah's Arc' is a safe guard against our own destructive nature. It's kind of like buying two kittes because you know you'll end up stepping on one of them.
Read the full article here
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/03/10/arctic_seed_vault_becomes_worlds_most_diverse_collection_of_crop_diversity.html
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This article IS supper creepy. If we destroy each other and there are no plants left on the Earth, who is going to go to the vault in the Arctic and plant all those seeds around the world?
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