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Putting my sci-fi/apocalypse tin foil hat on:

Someone engineering an airborne bacteria that lives off plastics would probably collapse the world economy and kill half the population.




You're fifty years late. Doomwatch did an episode called The Plastic Eaters in 1970.

"A plane dissolves in mid-air, its plastic components eaten away. Doomwatch faces its first challenge: to halt the disastrous spread of a man-made virus with the power to melt all plastic."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564476/


I’m relieved I’m not the only one who immediately thought of what could go wrong. I’ll admit I didn’t think of the airborne part but I did immediately think of it escaping the landfills.




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