Ghost of a flea: Cold storage

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March 04, 2008

Cold storage

The Guardian has video as the global seed vault opens for business in Svalbard.

Hardly anything grows on Svalbard. In this Arctic archipelago, the permafrost is 1,000ft deep, the nearest tree grows 600 miles to the south, and the sun does not rise for four months of the year. But it is on this frozen, barren outpost that the future of mankind's food supply depends.

The seed vault project is one of the few instances of long term thinking in which our species is currently engaged, albeit funded and (I would expect) managed by short term thinking global warmenists. Still, it seems a sensible precaution against a catastrophic meteorological or epidemic incident. Now all they need to do is make it proof against the future jihadi government of ~~Sweden~~ Norway; that one is going to prove trickier.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 4, 2008 07:27 AM

Comments

"a friendly, stable and well-respected government with Norway [which has sovereignty over Svalbard]"

Cheers

Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs at March 5, 2008 12:08 AM

I admit it is not helping matters that I have already handed Norway back to Sweden. Better do some editing...

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at March 5, 2008 05:27 AM