Published Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 17:20
by
Gwendoline
in Save our planet (593 views and 4 comments)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been officially inaugurated on 26 February. A big vault has been hollowed in the Spitzberg (Norway): 4,000,000 seeds are now stored by -18°C! Researchers of all over the world have been working hard on this huge project. The aim is to “provide and ultimate safety net to conserve a capacity to feed the planet in the event of a disaster”. This safe deposit system has a refrigerating device to lower the temperature of the mountain that sometimes reaches -3ºC (in case the global warming were to reach peaks). The plant databank is made of edible seeds that would enable humanity to survive and recover from a global catastrophy.
See a video on the project:
This type of projects makes one believes in humankind. Of course the very reason why we are building such a place is rather sad! Are we going to witness a Noah's ark for animals? For human beings? At the end of the day, every so-called superior species has vanished from the surface of the Earth. So should we really try to save humanity?
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1. Wow! by Asynjen
on Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 17:31
A beautiful idea - as response to the sad reality of climate change!2. Wonderful... and sad. by frederic.vareillas
on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 14:19
Perhaps it's time to contemplate emigrating to Scandinavia, Iceland and...Siberia.
Who knows what'll happen when Europe temperature rises 3°C...?
3. Just one more thing by frederic.vareillas
on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 14:24
If you haven't already done so, I kindly recommand you read "The revenge of Gaia" by the 87 year old English scientist Sir James Lovelock ("La revanche de Gaïa" par Jim Lovelock, collection poche, 8 €).
There's a Lovelock website as well (it's free).
Plus we have reached the King Hubbert's oil peak in 2006 and find ourselves in depletion now.
Good luck,
Fred
4. Finally humans can deffend themselves from themselves! by avalon on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 15:03
It is a wonderful thing that humans can deffend themselves from themselves!
It is really sad that we had to think about these kind of extreme safety solutions and that we couldn't just stop before reaching a critical level of polution, global warming, deflorestation, animal extinction, etc.
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