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From 1933, before the explosion of modern plastics, the poem Metropolitan Nightmare touches on a similar idea, termites that evolve to eat steel: https://poets
by myself248 4y ago
From 1933, before the explosion of modern plastics, the poem Metropolitan Nightmare touches on a similar idea, termites that evolve to eat steel:
https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare
It's mostly about climate change, though.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoThere was a Judge Dredd comic where a bacteria that eats "plasteen" is accidentally released and collapses buildings, and also eats a man's artificial heart. I'm guessing that the writer read that poem.