Pentti Linkola

Pentti Linkola
Linkola in 2011
Linkola in 2011
BornKaarlo Pentti Linkola
(1932-12-07)7 December 1932
Helsinki, Finland
Died5 April 2020(2020-04-05) (aged 87)
Valkeakoski, Finland
SubjectOrnithology, environmentalism, nature, deep ecology
Notable worksCan Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis (2011)
Notable awardsEino Leino Prize
1983

Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 in Helsinki – 5 April 2020)[1][2][3] was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist,[4] ornithologist,[5] polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. He wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker,[6][7]: 271  and is linked by some authors to ecofascism and to authoritarian deep ecology.[8][9][10][11] Linkola was a year-round fisherman from 1959 to 1995. He fished on Keitele, Päijänne and the Gulf of Finland, and since 1978 he fished on Vanajavesi.[12]

Linkola blamed humans for the continuous degradation of the environment. He promoted rapid population decline to combat the problems commonly attributed to overpopulation.[7] Linkola also defended an end to immigration, the reversion to pre-industrial life ways, and authoritarian measures to keep human life within strict limits.[8]

  1. ^ "Luonnonsuojelija Pentti Linkola on kuollut" (in Finnish). Yleisradio. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Pentti Linkola 1932-2020: Äärimmäinen luonnonsuojelija ei säästänyt itseään – ihmisten vihaajaksi luultu erakko oli loistava seuramies" (in Finnish). Iltalehti. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Pentti Linkola kuoli kotonaan nukkuessaan, vielä viikko sitten hän osallistui kokoukseen, suunnitteli metsien suojelua – ja odotti, milloin linnut alkavat taas laulaa" (in Finnish). Aamulehti. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. ^ Mika LaVaque-Manty, "Arguments and fists: political agency and justification in liberal theory", Routledge, 2002, p. 159.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Harris was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Henry Minde, Svein Jentoft, Harald Gaski, "Indigenous peoples: self-determination, knowledge, indigeneity", Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., 2008, p. 100.
  7. ^ a b George C. Schoolfield, "A history of Finland's literature", U of Nebraska Press, 1998, p. 271.
  8. ^ a b Wilson, Jason (19 March 2019). "Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  9. ^ Protopapadakis, Evangelos D. (11 December 2014). "Environmental Ethics and Linkola's Ecofascism: An Ethics Beyond Humanism". Frontiers of Philosophy in China. 9 (4): 586–601. doi:10.3868/s030-003-014-0048-3. ISSN 1673-3436.
  10. ^ Johnson, Jenell (3 January 2023). Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-09628-5.
  11. ^ Benoist, L. (2020). Green is the new brown. Ecology in the metapolitics of the French far right today. CPS: International Master’s Programme in Human Ecology Human Ecology Division Department of Human Geography Faculty of Social Sciences Lund University. Supervised by Andreas Malm.
  12. ^ Turtiainen, Pekka: Kalastaja. Sääksmäki: Voipaalan taidekeskus, 2015.