Comments on: The apocalypse seed vault on Svalbard island

By: james

james — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:04:26 +0000

so who has the key to get in?
if it is so secure, even if the last living people got to the vault they wouldnt even be able to get inside. or plant any of the seeds in the snow. This whole thing is a scam on the world for the benefit of the few wealthy. and as if monsanto, rockerfellers, rothchilds and bill gates are going to share with any average scum like us. you folks living in fantasy land can keep on dreaming, you are going to die with the rest of us.
the version more likely to happen is: monsanto’s death seeds with cross contaminate with every crop on earth, they will produce dead seeds, leaving 99% of people poor and without food. monsanto and co will wait for us all to die, then crack open the organic seeds to start a new world (order) for themselves…

By: John

John — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:14:34 +0000

We need one for genetic material of animals as well.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:43:13 +0000

The Monsanto Corporation is a major financial contributor the seed bank; as well as Syngenta Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. So if Monsanto is evil, doesn’t that mean the whole project is subject to Mansanto’s whims? David speculated about who had control of the bank, but does anyone really know the facts about this? The people in control of the seed bank control the food supply, and thus the survival of everyone if a catastrophe strikes our planet. Just because this seed bank exists, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to benefit from it.

By: myrmidonguild

myrmidonguild — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:18:23 +0000

Thanks for the info

By: MJG

MJG — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:22:38 +0000

Curt- Wish I could get out there, maybe some day. Though oddly enough, most of the photos I’ve seen are quite unimpressive. I don’t know why that should be. Good call on the unexploded thing- of course that is not the danger.

By: Curt

Curt — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:23:18 +0000

BTW, Chernobyl is still abandoned b/c radioactive levels in the soils are too high – not that it is unexploded. It couldn’t explode in the atomic bomb sense of ‘explode’.

Some observers have noticed that wildlife has returned to the area in large numbers – but mostly b/c there are no people there. And of course they are being exposed to high levels of that stuff, and the critters will have long term effects.

By: Curt

Curt — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:19:10 +0000

Cool stuff – I talk about this seed bank in my Enviro Science course. This article is a bit different from other stuff you post – was hoping you actually got the chance to go there your self to photograph.

By: MJG

MJG — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:57:17 +0000

Six Pack Fast- I just pick stuff that is interesting to me, basically. I’ve had my eye on this thing for a while now.

Joco- Thanks, I’m glad you found it useful. About the James Bond extreme side of things- I think that’s chiefly how media people depict it because it makes it seem cool. Actually I think it’s less romantic, less apocalypse, and more of a redundancy for the hundreds of seed banks that already exist around the world. Would it be much use in the event of global apocalypse? I very much doubt it.

K Mammo- Exactly, I do agree with you, it’s about humans taking responsibility for this planet and being good custodians rather than just rapacious consumers.

By: Kassahun Mammo

Kassahun Mammo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:34:45 +0000

It is a great achevment hi human history, equally important to space exploration that cof NASA task for the global safeguard
Many thanks
K mammo
Ethiopia

By: joco

joco — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:00:25 +0000

How well summed up your post is. Everything one would want to know about it in one article.
I loved the “Cool …… place” bit.

This entire project seems ‘Bond-style over the top’ to me, for many of the reasons brought up in the comments.
I wonder if they throw in a few bods to deepfreeze along with the seeds They will need knowledgeable gardeners after all.
Can’t see it being of any use to humans whether there is a catastrophe or not.
If you come up to those in charge and say: “we are out of this or that apple variety, can we have some more please?”, they are not going to oblige, are they?

Thanks for the post and I hope you won’t mind if I put a link to it when I do my seed post.
joco
Oxford, UK