CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS October 25, 2015 14:59:00
Been made. the event that necessitated this first doomsday withdrawal was not nature's fury but the syrian civil war. the syrian city of aleppo was home to a seed bank that has more than 140,000 seeds samples including a barley collection. threatened by the war in 2012, the scientists had shipped 80% of the those seeds to banks like this in norway. today the organization is building new facilities outside syria and with drew 38,000 seeds from the norway bank to begin replenishing their seed supply. it just goes to show this type of back up can be crucial for environmental and manmade disasters...