The facility stores close to 900000 seed samples from around the world and acts as a sort of backup plan for agriculture should disaster render parts of the planet unlivable, or the world suffer a catastrophe such as extreme climate change. Between 2071 and 2100 it is estimated the average temperatures throughout the archipelago will increase by between 7-10 C. In Svalbard where the vault is located global warming has become a major problem it is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Svalbard Doomsday Vault exists to protect the world's most valuable natural resources from catastrophe. If we want to avoid making multiple withdraws tackling climate change is a priority. The main reason I wanted to talk about this vault was because I don’t like the idea of this vault being mankind's hope a lot of articles are describing it as hope. Articles such as Inside the Doomsday Vault where it looked to the vault as a possible solution to the problem of climate change however I hate this idea. If climate change stays on the course the earth will not be able to support agriculture and life on the surface building this vault with the idea that the worst will come to pass is a sad thing to think about because for everyone calling this vault hope or a great thing I say to them the day we actually open this vault and need to use it is the day hope dies because at that point the damage is done and irreversible the earth will never be the same again.
Interesting, this reminds me of the show The 100 when they had many seed samples and had to find how to grow food and survive underground for a number of years. And true, the vault being used would be unfortunate as that means it's gone too far.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool photo! The fact that there is artwork at the top of the vault gives me more hope. I understand how you see the reliance of a seed bank for preventing human demise is silly but if hope doesn’t exist neither can humanity.
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