Doomsday vault to avert world famine

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2534, 2006, págs. 12-12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Within a large concrete room, hewn out of a mountain on a freezing-cold island just 1,000 km from the North Pole, could lie the future of humanity. The room is a "doomsday vault" designed to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world's crops. Details of the doomsday vault, which being promoted by the Global Crop Diversity Trust to safeguard the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes, and the ensuing collapse of electricity supplies, are presented.