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James A. Coffman

Emergence from Emergency

Our global existential crisis affords an opportunity for civilizational metamorphosis

May 15

Emergence from Emergency

May 15

Bubbles within Bubbles: Global Insanity, 2025

On how, by virtue of mental walls built and reinforced by society and civilization, most of us are alienated from nature and ourselves….

Apr 24

Bubbles within Bubbles: Global Insanity, 2025

Apr 24

A Disturbingly Plausible Explanation for the Fermi Paradox

The universe is so immense that it is almost certainly rife with life that has spawned other civilizations. But where is everybody?

Mar 15

A Disturbingly Plausible Explanation for the Fermi Paradox

Mar 15

Science: What it Is, and How it Works

It’s been over six decades since U.S. President John F. Kennedy launched a massive public investment in science and technology with his…

Mar 8

Science: What it Is, and How it Works

Mar 8

The Rise and Fall of the United States of America

An excerpt from Chapter X: The Final Days (2024–2025)

Feb 17

The Rise and Fall of the United States of America

Feb 17

The Nature of Change

On the what, why, where, when, and how of perpetual change.

Feb 3

The Nature of Change

Feb 3

Change, Foresight, Adaptability: Dune and Parable of the Sower

How the two award-winning works of speculative fiction provide insight into development and evolution.

Dec 7, 2024

Change, Foresight, Adaptability: Dune and Parable of the Sower

Dec 7, 2024

Metamorphosis

Whatever hope there is for the future of humanity lies in civilizational metamorphosis. What might that entail?

Nov 20, 2024

Metamorphosis

Nov 20, 2024

Energy, Information, and the Collapse of Civilization

Why carrying on business as usual as though everything is going to be okay is part and parcel with civilizational collapse

Nov 16, 2024

Energy, Information, and the Collapse of Civilization

Nov 16, 2024

Predictably, Our Senescent Civilization is Now Collapsing

Everything that exists came to be through a process of systemic development, a progressive trajectory of change driven by autocatalytic…

Apr 24, 2022

Predictably, Our Senescent Civilization is Now Collapsing

Apr 24, 2022

James A. Coffman

James A. Coffman

Doctor of philosophy, biologist, author, musician, songwriter; curious to know why things are the way they are, and how they came to be.

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