Survival of our species/See also

Organisations thinking about these issues:

The Long Now Foundation

This was established in 01996* to encourage long term thinking in a world that lives in a frantic present without much regard for the future. Two major projects are Clock of the Long Now which is clock designed to run for 10,000 years and the Rosetta Project which trying to create a near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The mission of this seed vault is store as many seeds known to us as is possible. This is to prevent important agricultural and wild plants from becoming rare or extinct in the event of a global disaster. It is being built on the remote arctic island of Svarlbard. BBC article 7th Feb 02007*

*Five digits are used here to denote years, in honour of the Long Now Foundation who use this format to help promote long-term thinking