Highly recommended documentary Seeds of Time (2013) [0] on Dr. Cary Fowler at the FAO responsible for building the Spitsbergen/Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Time_(film)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

I'd also recommend reading up on the Vavilov collection in St. Petersburg: an incredible history.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-tragedy-...

After hearing her opinion on leaf blowers, namely, that "they need to be eradicated from the earth"[0], this feels significantly less surprising

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKmFlnoJ3OU

Why do we build a valut ? Because we destroy the seeds. So why not spend time avoiding destroying the seeds ?

The people destroying the seeds are not the ones building the vaults.

Who is destroying the seeds?!

Who is destroying the seeds?!

Collectively, much like traffic, we all are.

Not even almost have I ever destroyed a seed, other than the times it was part of the food I consumed.

But I guess if they want to really keep some peanut seeds in a vault because I keep eating them then I guess that makes sense, to them.