We're Fucked, Seeds Saved

I tried for a funny opener, but this goes back to my organic food paranoia, inspired by the incredibly affective documentary "The Future of Food", and I just can't think this is funny.

It is funny that we have seen the face of the death of our species, and all we're prepared to do is set some seeds aside for the survivors of the planetary Apocalypse, but that's it. Sorry.

The Norwegian government has just issued a release describing the site and construction of the International Seed Vault in a very long tunnel built into the side of a very high, frozen mountain on a tiny island north of Norway, almost in the Arctic circle.

These are the folks behind it, and they really believe that if we have a natural and/or nuclear holocaust, the human race will care about crop diversity.

Let's just hope Monsanto doesn't get there, first.