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

It's going to take a revolution. We'll have to make threats we're able and willing to carry out.

@aka_quant_noir @Blueteamsherpa the revolution already happened. We watched the storming of the Capitol and now the very people behind it are occupying all the seats of power. Their genius was they did it in slow motion so we didn’t pay enough attention to it.

@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.

@deirdrebeth @starkraving666 @jered @Blueteamsherpa thank fuck for all those good people in the ski countries
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@Starry @jered @Blueteamsherpa here’s an idea, instead of falling all over ourselves to hack the mainframe we could just stop reading NYT and support actual journalism instead

aaaaand mute

@starkraving666 @jered @Blueteamsherpa I agree, except when NYT is the only one running an article about something I'd like to know.
@jered
Purity. So one type of wheat. Not this woke biodiversity shit of 62,000 different types of wheat. </sarcasm>
@Blueteamsherpa

@jered @Blueteamsherpa the piece sadly doesn't offer an explanation for the question in the title.

Yes, they want to brake things. And they are "going to make mistakes on the way". But, WTF? Even if Musk believes he will live on mars one day with his followers, he will need seeds to grow food.

@Blueteamsherpa
While I agree with every word you wrote and the sentiment of it all, I have observed US hegomonic control greed from afar for 40 years or so years.
Nothing short of an uprising will stop oligarchy and fascism in my mind.
The fact that there are more weapons than people in the USA and that a significant proportion (the majority perhaps) of gun owners are right wing arseholes with inadequate education and small penises, odds are they'll win that battle.
@PetraPanda @Blueteamsherpa There are plenty of armed people on the left here. For some reason, many of the right-wing gun people make their ownership of firearms their whole personality. The armed left doesn't really talk about it because to most of them they are just things.
@lerxst @Blueteamsherpa
There's a left in the USA?
@PetraPanda @Blueteamsherpa not well organized, and barely represented at all in the political landscape, but yes.
@PetraPanda @lerxst @Blueteamsherpa You don’t see the US left much, becausd this center-right neoliberal fake ”left” poses as one. Just saying.. (Not American myself)
@Blueteamsherpa on a related note (acknowledging that this DOES sound disastrous/unacceptable), I wonder if other places outside the u.s. have something akin to what you’re talking about?

@Blueteamsherpa @tsyum

https://www.croptrust.org/work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/

The US is working hard to be the kind of place the rest of the world won’t want to share with, though.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Crop Trust

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance against the loss of crop diversity and is the world's largest backup facility for seeds.

@tsyum @Blueteamsherpa I know during the Cold War that the Soviet Union had one. Don't know if there's one in Putin's Russia now.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Crop Trust

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance against the loss of crop diversity and is the world's largest backup facility for seeds.

@tsyum @Blueteamsherpa the first seed vault (vavilov institute of plant industry) is still operational to this day

http://www.vir.nw.ru/
Всероссийский институт генетических ресурсов растений имени Н.И. Вавилова (ВИР) – Всероссийский институт генетических ресурсов растений имени Н.И. Вавилова (ВИР)

@halva @Blueteamsherpa @tsyum

The irony that even the big baddie Russians can see how important it is

@Blueteamsherpa They are destroying irreplaceable people, data, history and resources.
Irreplaceable.
There has to be justice for this crime against the American people.
Now.
Before it’s too late.
@Blueteamsherpa Hey @GottaLaff and @Nonilex you might want to share this. Musk attacking the Doomsday Seed Vault is very, very bad and we need to push back on it now!
Please and thank you!
@ai6yr
@Blueteamsherpa Guessing this is like when he bought Twitter, ripped out the 2FA system because he didn’t get it, and bricked thousands of accounts forever. I was baffled when that happened to *Twitter*—now it’s happening to the entire country. @frankie

@Blueteamsherpa There's another seed vault in Norway:

https://www.croptrust.org/work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/

I mean, horrible that they are shutting down the one in the U.S., but the existence of others may at least temper our despair.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Crop Trust

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance against the loss of crop diversity and is the world's largest backup facility for seeds.

@Blueteamsherpa Fortunately it's not the only one of its kind.
@Blueteamsherpa
It seems he's not that bright.

@Blueteamsherpa

Protesting outside a Tesla dealership is "terrorism".

Destroying our ability to grow food in the event of an agricultural collapse is "efficiency".

1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

@Blueteamsherpa

I cannot accept that this Is happening. Where will it stop? Every step seems worse than the previous. what is next? Burning every single book? Destroying the economy? Starting nuclear war?

@Blueteamsherpa How much do you suppose is Monsanto paying Musk?
@Blueteamsherpa Thank you for flagging. I’m glad Europeans have a seed vault as well. “The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.”
@simona @Blueteamsherpa It's not a European seed vault. It's a global seed vault. A backup for the germplasm held under UN auspices by international agricultural research organisations mostly located in developing countries, eg the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. They are in politically unstable places and frequently subject to natural disasters. More than one, eg that formerly in Syria (ICARDA), has been destroyed during civil war.
@Blueteamsherpa and to add, learning to store your own seeds is crucial. I personally have a seed bank of over 200 wild and domesticated plants I’ve grown and saved over the years
@Blueteamsherpa @alice Turning DOGE into bonemeal fertilizer would be an adequate accountability option.
@Blueteamsherpa This man is on a fast track to become identified as the Antichrist 🤔
@Blueteamsherpa
Someone please tell #ElonMusk that we need these seeds to live on #Mars.

@Blueteamsherpa

Do you think Big Agriculture might have something to do with this? Because, you know, crispr can produce sterile, drought and disease resistant crops that will capture the entire food supply.

@Blueteamsherpa

Next they will want to annex Svalbard from Norway, because, you know someone just landed a boat there a few hundred years ago, does that mean it's theirs? We need it for national security

@Blueteamsherpa something valuable that belongs to ‚we the people‘ is not of any value to billionaires