Description: Changes in cosmic environments, from solar storms to asteroid impacts, have altered the course of history. Tracing how such events shaped geopolitics and spurred scientific and cultural innovation, Dagomar Degroot asks what comes next as the solar system becomes increasingly vulnerable to human activity.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: Dagomar Degroot takes readers on an engrossing journey through the solar system and the history of astronomy, uncovering the dynamic and often unexpected ways outer space has shaped Earth's environment and human history. In this sweeping account, Degroot redefines our understanding of our home planet--not as an isolated world, but as one deeply entangled with the cosmos.--Teasel Muir-Harmony, author of Operation Moonglow