Some folks up in the EU are thinking long term. While they might be decried as the ultimate type of pessimist, thinking ahead like this is rarely a bad thing.

It sounds like something from a science fiction film — a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island ready to serve as a Noah’s Ark for seeds in case of a global catastrophe.

But Norway’s ambitious project is on its way to becoming reality Monday when construction begins on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to house as many as 3 million of the world’s crop seeds.

Norway to house seeds in doomsday vault - Yahoo! News

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