4 months ago
Highly recommended documentary Seeds of Time (2013) [0] on Dr. Cary Fowler at the FAO responsible for building the Spitsbergen/Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Time_(film)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
4 months ago
I'd also recommend reading up on the Vavilov collection in St. Petersburg: an incredible history.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-tragedy-...
4 months ago
After hearing her opinion on leaf blowers, namely, that "they need to be eradicated from the earth"[0], this feels significantly less surprising
4 months ago
Why do we build a valut ? Because we destroy the seeds. So why not spend time avoiding destroying the seeds ?
4 months ago
The people destroying the seeds are not the ones building the vaults.
4 months ago
Who is destroying the seeds?!
4 months ago
Who is destroying the seeds?!
4 months ago
4 months ago
Collectively, much like traffic, we all are.
4 months ago
Not even almost have I ever destroyed a seed, other than the times it was part of the food I consumed.
But I guess if they want to really keep some peanut seeds in a vault because I keep eating them then I guess that makes sense, to them.