Seed: The Untold Story Page #3
against humanity,
blow up a seed bank in war.
(loud explosions)
It becomes an immediate
target to weaken a country.
(loud explosions)
When we invaded Iraq,
we destroyed that seed bank
and we destroyed that garden.
And we destroyed that repository
that had been collected
by that government
for the benefit of mankind.
(machine gun clanks and fires)
(bomb explodes)
(cannons explode)
(metal creaks)
During World War II,
Hitler was aiming to conquer
Nikolai Vavilov's seed
bank in Saint Petersburg.
And the people associated
with that seed bank
holed themselves
up in the building
and kept those seeds protected,
even though they were
starving to death
landing all around them.
(moves into soft and
relaxing strings music)
I remember gardening
Now they have
gardens of their own
If there's no one to
pass that seed onto,
that living link and
that living seed is lost.
These are grandpa's
Morning Glories,
the seed that started
the whole movement.
When we started Seed
Savers in the 70's,
we didn't have anything,
we just had an idea and a dream
so we had thousands of
beans in my living room.
It was now our responsibility
to keep all those
bean varieties alive
what we've saved over those
years is irreplaceable
and if we hadn't started then,
we would've lost a lot more.
when I started out with
two varieties of seed
and now I'm here looking at
over 24,000 accessions of seed
that we're permanently
maintaining at the seed vault.
All of our seeds are in
air tight foil packs,
so they're not
maintaining any moisture.
We also store a backup
collection at the seed vault
off the coast of
Norway, at Svalbard.
Svalbard has been called
the doomsday seed vault.
The idea is that if one
wipes out part of the world
or there's catastrophic
cultural and economic collapse.
You know, we see all the seed
banks in the world looted,
just for food.
The idea was to have a backup,
like the ultimate
backup just in case
the seed bank is destroyed and
But the problem with it is that
we think that we don't have
It gives a false
sense of security.
All the gene banks,
they're all arks.
Ultimately, life does
not go on in an ark.
I'm not confident
that any of us.
Have got something
long term in place
that can weather the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune
that might come our way
(rain pours intensely)
We're now facing
severity of climate change,
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