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Noah’s Ark in the Arctic: Doomsday Vault for SeedsPosted on Jun 19, 2006
Norway is starting construction on a massive subterranean complex on the Arctic island of Svalbard to store seeds of all known crops in the world. More than 100 countries have signed on to the project, which is designed to reestablish plants in the wake of an apocalyptic manmade or natural attack. Norway’s Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen called the vault a “Noah’s Ark on Svalbard.”
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By C Quil, June 20, 2006 at 12:13 pm #
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Putting hope into cold storage - a fitting metaphor for our time.
Report thisBy Druthers, June 20, 2006 at 5:32 am #
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While our “dear leaders” dream of militarising
Report thisspace with their “dear tax-payer’s” dollars the rest of the world, rightly concerned about what our wild-west civilization, in the hands of rodeo cowboys, may bring upon humanity, is packaging seeds.
They are probably the wisest among us.