Pentti Linkola
Pentti Linkola | |
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Linkola in 2011 | |
| Born | Kaarlo Pentti Linkola 7 December 1932 Helsinki, Finland |
| Died | 5 April 2020 (aged 87) Valkeakoski, Finland |
| Subject | Ornithology, environmentalism, nature, deep ecology |
| Notable works | Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis (2011) |
| Notable awards | Eino Leino Prize 1983 |
Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 in Helsinki – 5 April 2020) was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. He wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker,: 271 and is linked by some authors to ecofascism and to authoritarian deep ecology. 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.
Linkola blamed humans for the continuous degradation of the environment. He promoted rapid population decline to combat the problems commonly attributed to overpopulation. Linkola also defended an end to immigration, the reversion to pre-industrial life ways, and authoritarian measures to keep human life within strict limits.