I am evermore convinced that I must immediately move to Scandinavia. This actually brought tears to my eyes. I'm getting more and more delicate living in this biggerbetterfastermorei'llsellyououtnotifisellmyselfoutfirstlookatmytitsfuckyoubangbang culture (not to put too fine a point on it), and I am just dying, literally, for -- what is it? What would I call it? Decency? Sanity? Pacifist ideal? Breathing room? Whatever it is, I want it.
'Doomsday' seed bank to be built.
Norway is planning to build a "doomsday vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world's crops.
The Norwegian government will hollow out a cave on the ice-bound island of Spitsbergen to hold the seed bank.
It will be designed to withstand global catastrophes like nuclear war or natural disasters that would destroy the planet's sources of food.
Seed collection is being organised by the Global Crop Diversity Trust.
"What will go into the cave is a copy of all the material that is currently in collections [spread] all around the world," Geoff Hawtin of the Trust told the BBC's Today programme.
Mr Hawtin said there were currently about 1,400 seed banks around the world, but a large number of these were located in countries that were either politically unstable or that faced threats from the natural environment.
GM's no good for us, friends! You've heard of terminator seeds, no? Holy Hannah, that is some of the most criminal, anti-human shit I have ever heard of. Fight it at all costs, or maybe we can be neighbors in Norway.
I'd love to be your and db's neighbor!
Posted by: David | Friday, 13 January 2006 at 05:13 PM
Norway is so hard to figure: They want to save the world's seeds, but they can't stop slaughtering whales.
In America, some seedsaving farmers have had Monsanto come after them. Eventually, we will probably have to hide all of the seeds.
Posted by: Diane | Friday, 13 January 2006 at 07:42 PM