The Doomsday Vault

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/europe/svalbard-global-seed-vault-syria/index.html

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Vault, is located in the side of a mountain in the Arctic archipelago. The vault is a seed bank, filled with seeds for almost every known crop in the world. It's meant to be humanity's back up in the event of a crop devastating catastrophe. But it has been opened. It wasn't a natural disaster that cause them to open the vault, but a man-made disaster -- war. There are no signs of Syria's conditions improving, so the scientists are trying to recover their loss of important crops. The seeds are being planted in facilities in Lebanon and Morocco. 

I think that this is important because it could happen to any of us. If there were to be a natural disaster or man-made disaster in the United States, our crops would get ruined. If there are no crops, we can't feed livestock. We rely on livestock and crops to feed the nation. If this were ruined, we would end up having to import products from other countries, resulting in having to pay more taxes and our country would be even more in debt. Also, we would have to deal with starvation and malnourishment. I think that it is a good idea to have a vault like this, to make sure that we have a back up plan if our crops get ruined. I think that every country should have it.