Dear gentle readers: Apologies for a somewhat ragged Coffee Break today.  Traveling in Scotland and time has been taken up with details ( all good ) along with a few unexpected disconnects (as in stuff happens). Part the First: Scientists to the Rescue?  Economic growth is not the answer to any of our problems in this finite world.  Development without increased material and energy throughput in the economy is possible, however.  This has been recognized for a long time by the few perspicacious heterodox economists who realize that economics is not a natural science despite its excessive and generally spurious theoretical mathematization.  This truth has never quite penetrated the world of conventional “economic sciences,” for which the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded since 1969.…