Reading Time: 6 minutes Planning for the future is wise and necessary. But some philosophers leave reason behind and stray into religious fantasy when they argue that a far-off utopian scenario supersedes any moral obligations to the present.
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The Svalbard seed vault: A survival bunker for civilization
Reading Time: 5 minutes How could we reengineer civilization to be resilient against catastrophe? A vault of seeds slumbering in Arctic permafrost suggests one way.