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By Erin Jarvis
Berkeley Science Review
March 9, 2012
http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/we-can-do-it-protecting-the-earth-in-troubled-times/
"We are the stars burst into consciousness." This is my favorite bit of wisdom from evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme. His words are not simply metaphor; we truly are made of the stars. While stars are initially composed of just hydrogen and its fusion product helium, at the end of the star’s life carbon, oxygen, and all the rest of the elements are rapidly formed before the star’s last massive explosion into both nothingness and everything.
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