這個閃閃發(fā)光的冷金屬大石很像1999年以來一直被密封在人們房子下面的應(yīng)急生存包:有它在身邊讓人安心，但當(dāng)你真正需要它的時候卻很不愉快。斯瓦爾巴特群島全球種子庫——更廣為人知的是它可愛的昵稱“末日種子庫”——于2008年在挪威最北部的這個小島上建立，目的是保存已經(jīng)存放在世界各地種子銀行中的種子的冷凍基因副本:所有備份副本的備份。在-0.18攝氏度的種子庫中，從食物到纖維再到花朵的珍貴植物都可以免受災(zāi)難，甚至是世界末日的災(zāi)難。幸運的我們:我們需要素食的健康飲食來擊退僵尸。

This glittering monolith of cold metal is a lot like that still-sealed emergency survival kit languishing under people’s houses since 1999: Reassuring to have around, but a bummer when you actually have to use it. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - better known by its cute nickname, the 'Doomsday Vault' - was established on this far-northern Norwegian isle in 2008 to archive frozen genetic copies of seeds already housed in seed banks around the world: a backup of all the backups. Kept at -0.18 degrees Celsius within the Seed Vault, precious botanicals from food to fibres to flowers are safe from disasters, even of the apocalyptic variety. Lucky us: It'll take a healthy diet of veggies to fight off the zombies.

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