Every Change Happening on Earth Is Connected to the Cosmic Domain It Is Embedded In.

The assumption that Earth operates as a largely self-contained system - affected by its own geology, its own climate cycles, its own biological processes - is one Randall argues we need to outgrow. This planet is embedded in a cosmic environment, and the evidence that the cosmic domain impinges on the terrestrial far more frequently than previously imagined is now beyond ambiguity. The ancient peoples who were obsessed with the sky were not engaged in superstition. They were paying attention to something that modern science is only now catching up to.

The solar constant - the assumed stability of energy output from the sun - is not nearly as constant as the name implies. Randall argues that a significant portion of the changes happening on Earth, changes that are routinely attributed to purely terrestrial causes, are connected to fluctuations and events in the cosmic domain of which Earth is a part. The sky that ancient cultures watched with such intensity was not a backdrop to human history. It was an active participant in it - and Randall argues that thinking cosmically is not an abstract philosophical exercise. It is the only framework large enough to accurately account for what has been happening on this planet throughout human history and what continues to happen now.

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