Thursday, January 31, 2008

'Doomsday' seeds arrive in Norway

Twenty-one boxes containing 7,000 seed samples from 36 African nations were sent by the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

The final leg of the journey will take the seeds to the remote Arctic Island.

The vault is intended to act as insurance so that food production can be restarted anywhere on Earth after a regional or global catastrophe.

Built deep inside a mountain, the structure will eventually house a vast collection of seeds; safeguarding world crops against possible future disasters including nuclear wars and dangerous climate change.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why can't I get excited about this?

Anthrokosmik Journey said...

Surely that is one of many ways to secure world domination--control the basic need of human race starts by controlling the food source. Well, the process has already started, Monsanto is a good example to start with.
Cheers
-Anthrokosmic