Did you read that story in Mother Trib this week about the “Doomsday Vault’’ in the Arctic? Norway spent close to $10 million constructing a vault only 620 miles from the north pole where they plan on storing 4.5 million seed samples in case of a global emergency such as a nuclear war. I felt like I was watching Dr. Stranglove comes to life.
A bunch of seeds will be OK for generations that might follow but I would feel better if they had a giant refrigerator up there stocked with Cuban sandwiches, deviled crabs and black beans. Man does not live on seeds alone.