As the weather plays games with us, blowing, freezing, heating at the wrong times of year, it is somehow reassuring to read about a vault for seeds now preserving 800,000 species. It is dubbed the “Doomsday Vault”.
The preservation vault, started 6 years ago, was built in the Arctic and requires little intervention to do its job. And the idea that if we destroy nature around us, as we are now doing with overconsumption of the biosphere, when the devastation is complete the last few humans will be able to wander up there to get seeds and start it all over again. Sadly, however, nature does not work like that and the recreation of species on a desolate earth will not be a panacea. That is certain and even proved by the failure of “Biosphere 2“.
While the objective of the vault might be futile, the fact that six years and millions have been donated to make it happen present a weighty argument that humanity needs to change its behaviour and tread more lightly on the planet.
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