Pentti Linkola
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"We still have a chance to be cruel. But if we are not cruel today, all is lost."--Pentti Linkola cited in "In His Solitude" (1994) by Dana Milbank |
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Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 – 5 April 2020) was a Finnish radical deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. He wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker.
A guru for the ecofascist militant tendency in environmental ethics, Linkola blamed humans for the continuous degradation of the environment. He promoted rapid population decline in order to combat the problems commonly attributed to overpopulation.
"In His Solitude" (1994); an interview in the WSJ brought him notoriety in the Anglosphere.
A text of his hand, "Humanflood" was anthologized in Apocalypse Culture II (2000).
His book Can Life Prevail?, a translation of Voisiko elämä voittaa (2004), is still in print.
Works
- Linkola, Pentti & Olavi Hilden: Suuri Lintukirja. Otava 1955, renewed edition 1962.
- Linkola, Pentti: Isänmaan ja ihmisen puolesta: Mutta ei ketään vastaan. Fourth edition. Helsinki: Suomen sadankomitealiitto, 1981 (originally published 1960).
- Linkola, Pentti: Pohjolan linnut värikuvin: Elinympäristö. Levinneisyys. Muutto. Otava 1963–67.
- Linkola, Pentti: Unelmat paremmasta maailmasta. Fourth edition. Porvoo: WSOY, 1990.
- Linkola, Pentti: Toisinajattelijan päiväkirjasta. Porvoo: WSOY, 1979. (In 1983 Linkola received the Eino Leino Prize for this book.)
- Linkola, Pentti and Osmo Soininvaara: Kirjeitä Linkolan ohjelmasta. Porvoo: WSOY, 1986.
- Linkola, Pentti: Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun. Porvoo: WSOY, 1989.
- Vilkka, Leena (ed.): Ekologiseen elämäntapaan: lead article. Helsinki: Yliopistopaino, 1996.
- Linkola, Pentti: Voisiko elämä voittaa. Helsinki: Tammi, 2004.
- Linkola, Pentti: Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis. UK: Arktos Media, 2nd Revised ed. 2011. Template:ISBN (English translation of Voisiko elämä voittaa).
See also
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Holocene extinction
- Green League
- Valkeakoski
- Puukko
- Neo-Luddism
- Human impact on the environment
- Ecofascism
- Human overpopulation
- Hugo Suolahti
- Criticism of technology
- Kaarlo Linkola
- Postdevelopment theory
- Deep ecology
- List of Finnish philosophers
- List of people who have expressed views relating to overpopulation as a problem