Seeing the effect we’ve had on the world through industry—in
particular, the burning of fossil fuels—can be depressing. With the world’s temperature increasing faster than it has in millennia, and our continued, voracious consumption of our
rapidly depleting fossil fuels aiding that rise, despair seems the natural
recourse. Nonetheless, countermeasures exist, and to my surprise one of
them—the use of biodiesels as a fuel source—is gaining traction.