Scientists are collecting a billion and a half seeds from all the world’s crops to keep in safe storage deep inside a mountain near the North Pole.
Why?
“These resources stand between us and catastrophic starvation on a scale we cannot imagine. And we now have, I think, kind of a perfect storm hitting agriculture,” Fowler says.
That “perfect storm” is crop extinction, a world population growing 50 percent in the next 50 years and global warming.
