In the event that the world destroys itself:
historic flooding, crops failing, may mean the extinction of the human species.
Through some sort of terrible catastrophe...
There is one insurance policy and it is right behind me.
The seed vault is a place where the world has stored the genetic information of
thousands and thousands of plants and crops, in some scenario that the world
is not able to facilitate the growth of past crops, they will come to the seed vault.
The seed vault has 135,000 genetic deposits. It's not just a deposit of
seeds, it's actually a deposit of genetic information, it's ingredients that scientists
could use to engineer new strains of plants, new strains of DNA that could be
suitable for whatever state the world's in.
So this is just the entrance to the
vault it's just like the first layer. It goes way back into the mountain.
Last October, an unexpected rain in this area got water into the main entrance
Hopefully the flooding would get in and just kill the cauliflower seeds.
It froze and turned into this kind of icy mess, which didn't necessarily threaten the seeds,
but what it did is it woke people up to the fact that this wasn't as
future-proofed as we thought it gonna be.
The lesson from this flooding drama, is that as this whole region warms two times
faster than the rest of the world,
it has these crazy consequences that happen seemingly overnight.