FEATURE BY ALAN BARNES
Long story short: the end of the world begins not with an ill-advised face-off between nuclear powers in a faraway land, but in Yorkshire, after a misplaced decimal point in an ‘Agrofuel’ lab creates bacteria that “turns any living thing it touches into gunk”. The former may seem more plausible, but would you sleep any better at night for knowing that the latter might actually have happened, a little over 20 years ago?
