Seeds of Hope
Imagine the world is hit by a natural disaster or a nuclear war. Now imagine the earth after one of these events. It’s a sad sight, isn’t it? But now, there is a modern Noah’s ark of every existing seed buried in a mountain, in the Norwegian islands of Svalbard. It’s the “Svalbard Global Seed Vault”, a bunker financed by the Norwegian government, that will contain 4.5 million of seeds. The vault is on the bowels of the Plaataberget mountain, where is preserved from any type of disaster. The temperature of the vault will guarantee the perfect conservation of the seeds. According to the experts, these can remain for 1000 years as well. I hope nothing happens to this amazing world, but if there should be a catastrophe, at least the survivors will have the chance of setting up a new Eden. But I fear they would destroy that too.
Photo by Marco Magrini
