Pentti Linkola
Kaarlo Pentti Linkola 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, and is linked by some authors to ecofascism and to authoritarian deep ecology. Linkola was a year-round fisherman from 1959 to 1995.
Background
- Born in
- Helsinki
- Educated at
- Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu
- Awards
- 🏆 Eino Leino Prize
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Man has learned nothing: there are people who are still sanctimonious in their opposition to violence regardless of the state of the world, and who will presumably continue in the same way until the e…"
"The crippling human cover spread over the living layer of the Earth must forcibly be made lighter: breathing holes must be punctured in this blanket and the ecological footprint of man brushed away. F…"
"What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Tho…"
"Church of Euthanasia reports a Wall Street Journal-Europe interview in which Linkola expresses the view that World War III would be: "a happy occasion for the planet.... If there were a button I could…"
"The chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much l…"
"Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the …"
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Timeline
1932
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