Description: conservation, preservation of knowledge in Peak Oil and climate-change crises is quasi-monastic vocation of English/Estonian science (physics, astrophysics) private student Toomas Karmo = Tom Karmo, a Catholic layman holding Oxford philosphy doctorate degree and computing-and-physics honours baccalaureate degree and possessing conservation-relevant s
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"metascientia" (Toomas Karmo): a single-person Ontario-based quasi-monastic suburban hermitage embracing spiritual poverty and scientific service in imitation of St Benedict of Nursia, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, and the Catholic Worker pioneers Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day
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