Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of f

http://www.ted.com The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring.

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[straightsixstyle]

I hate how people like this have to struggle to find funding, yet we squander money saving the Chevy Tahoe from extinction.

[Thinking4You]

Great talk.

[T4AVideos]

Please, please... do never accept any GMO seeds in this amazing seed bank!

[twilightawakening]

What's the song at the end?

[KhannKlan]

I agree.

Or if not a universal child cap perhaps a license to have children. It sounds like too much power but really, I would rather the government be giving the right people with good families and economic situations the chance to have kids rather than allowing poor or fundamentalist folks to push out kids in order to gain money or voting power.

The only question would be how to implement or enforce it.

[midare]

Diagnostic, the main reason the poor have so many children is lack of education, especially education for women. Education effects many things, among them awareness of contraception. Also, in situations where people are poor they often have large families in hopes that SOME children make it to adulthood to care for their parents. Until we can make sure their 1 child survives, is limiting them just? Think of this, the quake in China leveled that school that is a whole generation in a family dead.

[irrah77]

mass extinction... thanks to companies like Monsanto and other chemical companies. keep it up..and I know genocide will occur.

[darkdragonsoul99]

Ok this is kinda screwed up that place looks like something I've seen in mass effect