Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental Hist CITRO JOSEPH A. Critiques of human exceptionalism tend

Critiques of human exceptionalism tend to focus on our moral obligation towards other species

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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental Hist CITRO JOSEPH A. Critiques of human exceptionalism tendThe untold story of how environmental change throughout the cosmos shaped five hundred years of human civilization. Our solar system is a dynamic arena where asteroids careen off course and solar winds hurl charged particles across billions of miles of space. Yet we seldom consider how these events, so immense in scale, influence our fragile blue planet: Earth. In Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot traces the surprising threads linking human