Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System by deGroot, Dagomar

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System

The untold story of how environmental change throughout the cosmos shaped five hundred years of human civilization....
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Author: Dagomar deGroot
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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System by deGroot, Dagomar

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System

$32.00

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System

$32.00
Author: Dagomar deGroot
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The 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 endeavor to the rest of the solar system. He reveals how variability in planetary environments has shaped geopolitics, spurred scientific and cultural innovation, and encouraged new ideas about the emergence and fate of life. Martian dust storms altered the trajectory of the Cold War and inspired fantastical stories about alien civilizations. Comet impacts on Jupiter led to the first planetary defense strategy. And volcanic eruptions spewed sulfuric acid into Venus's atmosphere, exposing the existential risks of climate change at home.

As we stand on the brink of a new era of space settlement, cosmic environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable to human activity. They may also hold the key to slowing the destruction of environments on Earth. Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean urges us to develop an interplanetary environmentalism across a vast mosaic of entangled worlds and to consider the profound connections that bind us to the cosmos and each other.

Author: Dagomar deGroot
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.07lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.06w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780674986503


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2025
Foreword 08/25/2025

About the Author
deGroot, Dagomar: - Dagomar Degroot is Associate Professor of Environmental History at Georgetown University. A contributor to the Washington Post, Nature, and Aeon, he is the author of The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720, named one of the ten best history books of 2018 by the Financial Times.

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