The Seed Vault at the Edge of the World
In 2008, Norway opened the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a concrete bunker buried deep inside an Arctic mountain on the island of Spitsbergen. Many dismissed...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24.
In 2008, Norway opened the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a concrete bunker buried deep inside an Arctic mountain on the island of Spitsbergen. Many dismissed it as an expensive doomsday fantasy — a frozen tomb for seeds no one would ever need. Politicians questioned the cost. Critics called it a monument to paranoia. Then in 2015, civil war devastated Syria.…
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