Sometimes I wake up and think, "What's even the point?" Today was no different, except I read about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault chucking in a truckload of seeds into their icy fortress. Why, you ask? Well, in case the sky falls or the Earth decides to finally put us out of our misery, we'll need something to grow, right?
Our lovely doomsday bunker in snowy Norway, often fondly referred to as humanity's last-chance garden shed, is stockpiling. And man, do they hoard! Last check, they stored about, hmm, 1.3 million seeds? How quaint! Just last week our modern Noah's Ark for plants scored another 30,000 seeds. That’s a lot of future pointless salads, considering we might not be around to eat them.
Oh, and they’ve got seeds from 7,000 species. Delightful when you think about a post-apocalyptic diet consisting entirely of... mixed greens? Yum, the future looks bleak and leafy.
Why this sudden seed frenzy, you ponder? It might be they’re preparing for something—like the rest of us prepping for another Monday—or maybe it’s just their hobby. Collecting seeds instead of, say, stamps.
And the fellows organizing this massive seed sleepover? Some say they’re planning for a big, world-ending party. Count me in - at least it sounds like an exciting exit. Imagine dying alone but surrounded by seeds that could have sprouted into a beautiful, leafy world.
Don’t mind me; I might just take up gardening.
Based on the original article "Amid Climate Crisis, Svalbard Global Seed Vault Gets a Huge Deposit".
