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> Seed stores, distributed infrastructure, general survival training, and so on. If we actually thought like this and prepared ourselves in this manner during
by OrbitRock 6y ago
> Seed stores, distributed infrastructure, general survival training, and so on.
If we actually thought like this and prepared ourselves in this manner during good times it’d increase the resilience of our species so profoundly.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoWe can. Now is good times. Apart from the pandemic – but that's only one type of bad time; we're mostly okay as regards climate change, we don't currently have much crop blight, nuclear armageddon seems far away… and we're mostly in a position to prepare and mitigate those issues, even if we missed the boat on this particular pandemic.
- tharkun__ 6y agoSome of this does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault