In an excerpt from his new book, Rob Jackson explores what it will take to decarbonize one of the world’s dirtiest industries.
Diamonds are forever, except when they’re drill bits. The giant drill—20 feet long and mirroring a device in a Bond villain’s lair—griiinds amid a flood of sparks, flames, and molten iron gushing from the bottom of the newly punctured blast furnace into the torpedo-shaped rail cars a story below us. My safety glasses slip down the bridge of my nose in the heat.
