Elon Musk just raided America's doomsday seed vault.

Yes, you read that right. The vault meant to protect humanity’s last defense against agricultural collapse, stripped and sabotaged.

This isn't hyperbole. The seed bunker held our future. Our protection from famine, disease, climate disasters, destroyed by reckless arrogance.

Elon Musk fired critical scientists, placing centuries of agricultural heritage at immediate risk.

America relied on those seeds. America relied on those scientists. America relied on that bunker.

62,000 unique wheat strains, 600,000 genetic lines, our lifeline in a crisis, now endangered.

Without regular care, these seeds die. Without these seeds, we lose our ability to respond to threats.

Without that ability, we lose food security itself.

This is a direct assault on humanity's survival.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) treated our collective security as disposable, gambling with millions of lives. Farmers, families, and children. Everyone is harmed.

If you're thinking someone else will handle this, you're wrong. If you're assuming private industry will step in, you're wrong.

If you're comfortable waiting to act, you're complicit.

Apathy won't fix this, waiting won't reverse it.

You must immediately demand:
- Full reinstatement of the fired scientists.
- Secured federal funding protecting the seed vault permanently.
- Legislative safeguards ensuring this can never happen again.

Call your representatives. Share this message. Demand accountability from Musk, DOGE, and our government.

Act now, because your future depends on it. Your children's survival, planet's stability, and the nation's integrity are at stake.

It is urgent, necessary, and morally essential.

Stand up, speak out, and fight for our shared future.

@Blueteamsherpa (related article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html)

The weird thing about this story, of course, is that I thought Musk et al. were all about genetic purity...

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@deirdrebeth @starkraving666 @jered @Blueteamsherpa On the other hand, there surely must be some Russian interest in occupying Svalbard. Especially if the US occupies Greenland I think Russia would feel fully entitled to do that. (There is already significant Russian (civil, mining industry) presence there, completely openly and legally, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty .)
Svalbard Treaty - Wikipedia

@szakib @tml @deirdrebeth @starkraving666 @jered @Blueteamsherpa @szakib @tml @deirdrebeth @starkraving666 @jered @Blueteamsherpa I've said repeatedly for a while now we should have at least 5 seed vaults, dispersed accross continents. But I'd take sensible global governance too.

Greenland could be just them superpowers vying for access via Arctic sea. They're all (A+R at least) reaching out to grab whatever they can. That was their old playbook all along.