{"id":2814,"date":"2012-03-06T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2012-03-06T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:22:45","slug":"korean-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/03\/korean-doomsday-2814.html","title":{"rendered":"Seed Bank Insurance \/ Korean Doomsday Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seed banks<\/a> are incredibly valuable resources, and an acknowledgement that sometimes there SHTF events that require emergency backups. Seed banks can help restart horticulture in the event of a natural disaster or spread of a disease. But what if harm comes to the seed bank itself? Wars have destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan. And during last year’s uprising in Egypt a seed bank was looted.<\/p>\n

Sensibly the Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas – based in Syria – have decided to send a duplicate collection of their seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It’s a doomsdat bunker for seeds, located in the Norwegian Arctic. In total, 25000 new samples are being sent to Svalbard this week, bringing the total stored there to an incredible 740,000. Alongside Syria, the new samples include a further 12,000 from the USA. Full story at Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Doomsday Book<\/em><\/a> is a movie in production in South Korea, and a teaser trailer has just been released:<\/p>\n

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Two directors, Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil) and Yim Pil-sung (Hansel & Gretel) have created one segment each, and collaborated on a third. The featured doomsday scenarios are a pandemic, the rise of machines (robots) and a meteor headed for Earth – all of which make my list of 2012 possibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seed banks are incredibly valuable resources, and an acknowledgement that sometimes there SHTF events that require emergency backups. Seed banks can help restart horticulture in the event of a natural disaster or spread of a disease. But what if harm comes to the seed bank itself? Wars have destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan. And during last year’s uprising in Egypt a seed bank was looted.
\nSensibly the Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas – based in Syria – have decided to send a duplicate collection of their seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It’s a doomsdat bunker for seeds, located in the Norwegian Arctic. In total, 25000 new samples are being sent to Svalbard this week, bringing the total stored there to an incredible 740,000. Alongside Syria, the new samples include a further 12,000 from the USA. Full story at Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Doomsday Book is a movie …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-seed-vault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}