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Norway to Build Doomsday Seed Bank

Posted by Zonk on from the there-will-be-cabbage-after-the-crash dept.

Kagu writes "According to the BBC, Norway is planning to build a Seed Bank in the Artic Permafrost to protect all known variations of seeds in case of worldwide disaster." From the article: "Mr Hawtin said there were currently about 1,400 seed banks around the world, but a large number of these were located in countries that were either politically unstable or that faced threats from the natural environment."

7 of 273 comments (clear)

  1. They can have some of my seed by drsquare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As long as some Norweigen chick sucks me off and spits the load into a test tube.

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold post. Really cooooooooooold in Norway.

  3. dirty! by revery · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the words of Lorelai Gilmore...

    dirty!

  4. Re:old news... it was alredy on digg.com by Pharmboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was gonna bitch about it being a dupe, til I realized it wasnt a dupe, just already posted on Digg, as you point out.

    I didn't find it all that interesting, but somehow got over 1100 digs. The US has a "seed bank" as well, as do many other countries.

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  5. Re:I would add... by shaitand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder if anyone who even consider consuming poisons like alcohol if pot were cheap and legal (if legal, it would cheaper than most crops to produce per acre).

  6. testing by amightywind · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    test test

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  7. -1 : Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is how it should be marked.