Deep inside the Arctic circle is a giant vault that is being used to store up to 2 billion of the world’s agricultural seeds. This project is the brainchild of Professor Wangari Maatha, in collaboration with Monsanto and the Government of Norway. In theory, it was created as a safeguard for the diversity of the world’s crops. It has the best of intentions on the surface, but with several inherent flaws.
When Noah built the proverbial “Ark”, he had some knowledge as to what was going to happen later. He then loaded up the animals, food, people etc, and everything floated smoothly after that. It was irrelevant that no one had ever seen such a catastrophe before. All were invited to join in so he didnt have a monopoly as to who would survive. But the current Doomsday scenario seems to be directed toward who has the keys to the ark.
Here are some responses to the Norway seed bunker:
OK, so I think this is a great idea…in theory. Say a global tragedy does strike and all plant life is destroyed. What are the chances that in this scenario a human survives to plant these plants? If, by change, one or more DO survive what are the chances of them knowing about these frozen seeds? Then their is the small problem of locating them…seeing as their buried in a mountain…oh yeah, and how exactly are they going to get to the arctic? Oh, laughable laughable science.
Melissa, Newport News, VA
That’s interesting. Does Monsanto hold the keys to the vault?
K. Roesch, New Orleans, LA, USA
Wait a second… Doomsday? Silurian Extinction? Nuclear War?
Does anyone realize that seeds or no seeds, the Earth becomes INHABITABLE in these scenarios?
Congratulations, we survived…
…nuclear war, but the soil isn’t going to be replantable for 200 years… and unless I’m off on my biology, we don’t usually live that long.
…an extinction event meteor collision, but our crops won’t see the sun for another century.
…a catastrophic rise in ocean levels due to global warming, but now we have nowhere to plant the seeds.
….a third ice age, but we still have nowhere to plant the seeds.
Did I miss something?
Arpit, Dallas, TX
It seems to me that the bunker is a good idea- essentially, But we would be stupid to think that if the Doomsday scenario were to occur- that we would have all our needs met as survivors of such a crisis.
Have scientists considered the fact that many plants need insects to reproduce? So where is the depository to save these creatures? And what if the basic soil is contaminated? Or the water? Is there storage enough for this also? Perhaps they should plan to divide storage responsibility of these other needed survival elements among other countries or corporations.
It would be smart for a few private individuals to take matters in their own hands and create their own “bunker” of sorts. What would you save? Where? In what quantity? Who would be allowed in? The young, the smart, the qualified? We are fooling ourselves if we think this is a unique idea and that those who are “In the Know” aren’t already preparing this somewhere here on earth.
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April 21, 2008 at 10:20 am
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