SmartPlanet: Meet the man who will save the world from Armageddon

Cary Fowler believes storing seeds in a massive vault embedded in a mountain in Norway will preserve the world's diversity when Armaggedon arrives.

The project has been nicknamed the "Doomsday Vault," and it contains more than 500,000 genetically diverse kinds of seeds, primarily those that are important for agriculture.

"I do not believe there has ever been a period in the history of agriculture that the food supply has been hanging on such a thread," Fowler says. "It's a combination of climate change, water shortages, energy constraints, nutrient problems and poor soil."

Want to know more about the Doomsday Vault? Read the full interview on SmartPlanet's Pure Genius blog.