stackyFACTSDoomsday preparation requires an impressive cooling budget. Burying every known agricultural plant deep inside an Arctic mountain ensures humanity can eat after an apocalypse, but requires immense ongoing funding just to keep a massive concrete bunker at the perfect freezing temperature.
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