I strongly think that keeping a storage unit for the seeds is a good idea. You never know what could happen to the world and, G-d forbid, if anything bad enough happened to wipe our the world's source of produce and other plants you would want to have a back up plan to bring back everything.
A well known botanist and agronomist once said, "This genetic resource stands between us and catastrophic starvation on a scale we can not imagine."
It is also a good idea to keep a unit for the seeds so we don't continue to lose diversity in our products. Cray Fowler mentioned that in our future our coldest cold will be warmer than our hottest hot. This means that if we have an apple, for example, that is more heat resistant we might not have it in the future because it didn't produce a big enough apple and then eventually we will run out of apples. This could happen to any kind of plant or produce that we currently have. In other words it takes too long for nature to adapt for how fast climate and everything changes today.
All in all, it can't hurt to hold on to the seeds of today and the past so why not do it. It can only help us in the future incase of any crisis we may have.
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