Doomsday Vault

• 2/26/08 A “Doomsday Vault”—a storage facility buried deep in a frozen hillside in the island of Svalbard, Norway was opened today to receive the first portion of the millions of expected seeds to be placed in it for safekeeping in case of a global disaster which might destroy the seed crops of the world. This facility will rely on naturally frozen arctic conditions to preserve those seeds which can withstand lengthy freezing for possibly thousands of years. The government of Norway has built the facility at a cost of US$ nine million. The Doomsday Vault is called an “insurance policy” and a “modern Noah’s Ark”

This is no insurance policy.

WE are the insurance policy.

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