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* "Doomsday" Vault Will End Crop Extinction, Expert Says (December 27, 2007)
December 27, 2007 Coloful houses lie near the mountains in Longyearbyen, a village on the island of Spitsbergen, part of Norway's Svalbard archipelago.
A mountainside near the town was chosen as the home for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "doomsday" seed bank that will store backup copies of as many as three million different crop varieties in case of a worldwide catastrophe.
The high-tech vault, which will open for storage in February 2008, is going to "put an end to extinction [of] agricultural crops," said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome, Italy, which is the leading force behind the project.
The mission is crucial, Fowler noted, because the stored seeds provide researchers with the raw genetic materials needed to adapt the global food supply to survive climate change as well as water and energy shortages.
Also to be noted is this fact ,can it also be designed to hold people, is it already designed for thousands in case of yet unexplained misfortunes ie. ,earthquakes,mega-tsunamis ,poleshift,meteor impact,+ many more calamities.
Is there already a plan for this shelter to be used by "others" who might be in a different financial position to the vast "majority" of normal people, why is it only now that it is being built and recently "open" for business.There is 2 sides to the seed bank and the normal people in the world are only being shown the one ,unless something big is expected why collect enough seeds to start life again for a select few
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