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Pentti Linkola
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Pentti Linkola (December 7, 1932) is a radical Finnish philosopher and environmentalist and an advocate of genocide. He has written widely about his ideas and is without doubt the best-known deep ecologist in Finland. He has retired and works as a professional fisherman.
Life
Linkola grew up in Helsinki. His father Kaarlo Linkola was the Rector of Helsinki University and his mother's father Hugo Suolahti had worked as the Chancellor in the same university. Pentti Linkola did not want to continue his zoological and botanical studies after his first year. He became a free naturalist. During these years he wrote the Suuri lintukirja ("Great Book of Birds") (1955) with O. Hilden.
Linkola's first political publication was author's edition, the pamphlet Isänmaan ja ihmisen puolesta ("For the Man and the Country") (1960), in which he spoke strongly for pacifism and encouraged conscientious objection. However, Linkola himself has completed military service and has a military rank of corporal.
Ideas
In the essay collection Unelmat paremmasta maailmasta ("The Dreams about a Better World") (1971) he spoke for the first time out his ecological attitudes. He has continued to speak against the modern western way of life and the overuse of natural resources, and his latest books Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun ("The Introduction to the Philosophy of the 1990s") (1989) and Voisiko elämä voittaa ("Could Life Prevail") (2004) are collections of his writings that have been published in various Finnish newspapers and magazines.
As a philosopher Linkola can be described as a biocentric empirist. He demands that man return to a smaller ecological niche and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic progress. Linkola considers population growth the biggest threat to life on Earth. He advocates eugenics and genocide as a means to combat overpopulation.
Support for terrorism
Linkola has expressed his support for terrorism like 9/11 or Unabomber.
Guru status
Pentti Linkola has encountered a lot of opposition with his criticism of the affluent western society, but many look up to him as a sort of a guru, largely because he lives as he teaches. He doesn't own a car; he earns his living by fishing from a rowing boat and selling the fish from door to door with a horse.
Bibliography
* Linkola, Pentti & O. Hilden: Suuri Lintukirja. Otava 1955, renewed edition 1962.
* Isänmaan ja ihmisen puolesta: Mutta ei ketään vastaan. Fourth edition. Helsinki: Suomen sadankomitealiitto, 1981 (third edition 1970).
* 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.
* Linkola, Pentti & Osmo Soininvaara: Kirjeitä Linkolan ohjelmasta. Porvoo: WSOY, 1986.
* Linkola, Pentti: Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun. Porvoo: WSOY, 1989.
* Ekologiseen elämäntapaan: johdantoartikkeli. Yliopistopaino, 1996.
* Linkola, Pentti: Voisiko elämä voittaa. Helsinki: Tammi, 2004.
Also:
* Kämäräinen, Kauko: Linkola, oikeinajattelija. Tampere: Määrämitta, 1992.
External links
* Plausible Futures Newsletter Traces Linkola's career in the Green movement, and the connections between fascism and ecology (he has often been called an "eco-fascist" - some say he styles himself one).
* Church of Euthensasia reports a Wall Street Journal-Europe interview in which he expresses the view that World War III would be: "a happy occasion for the planet.... If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die."
* Who is Pentti Linkola? More quotes and information from a supporter's website, including his feelings about the human race:
"Such a lousy animal species that it would not survive even one million years, even though all now extinct species survived much longer."
* Finnish-English translation project of his 2004 book: Voisiko elämä voittaa A project aiming at bringing writings of Linkola to a wider audience, still at its early stages but steadily going forward.
Pentti Linkola
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Pentti Linkola (December 7, 1932) is a radical Finnish philosopher and environmentalist and an advocate of genocide. He has written widely about his ideas and is without doubt the best-known deep ecologist in Finland. He has retired and works as a professional fisherman.
Life
Linkola grew up in Helsinki. His father Kaarlo Linkola was the Rector of Helsinki University and his mother's father Hugo Suolahti had worked as the Chancellor in the same university. Pentti Linkola did not want to continue his zoological and botanical studies after his first year. He became a free naturalist. During these years he wrote the Suuri lintukirja ("Great Book of Birds") (1955) with O. Hilden.
Linkola's first political publication was author's edition, the pamphlet Isänmaan ja ihmisen puolesta ("For the Man and the Country") (1960), in which he spoke strongly for pacifism and encouraged conscientious objection. However, Linkola himself has completed military service and has a military rank of corporal.
Ideas
In the essay collection Unelmat paremmasta maailmasta ("The Dreams about a Better World") (1971) he spoke for the first time out his ecological attitudes. He has continued to speak against the modern western way of life and the overuse of natural resources, and his latest books Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun ("The Introduction to the Philosophy of the 1990s") (1989) and Voisiko elämä voittaa ("Could Life Prevail") (2004) are collections of his writings that have been published in various Finnish newspapers and magazines.
As a philosopher Linkola can be described as a biocentric empirist. He demands that man return to a smaller ecological niche and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic progress. Linkola considers population growth the biggest threat to life on Earth. He advocates eugenics and genocide as a means to combat overpopulation.
Support for terrorism
Linkola has expressed his support for terrorism like 9/11 or Unabomber.
Guru status
Pentti Linkola has encountered a lot of opposition with his criticism of the affluent western society, but many look up to him as a sort of a guru, largely because he lives as he teaches. He doesn't own a car; he earns his living by fishing from a rowing boat and selling the fish from door to door with a horse.
Bibliography
* Linkola, Pentti & O. Hilden: Suuri Lintukirja. Otava 1955, renewed edition 1962.
* Isänmaan ja ihmisen puolesta: Mutta ei ketään vastaan. Fourth edition. Helsinki: Suomen sadankomitealiitto, 1981 (third edition 1970).
* 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.
* Linkola, Pentti & Osmo Soininvaara: Kirjeitä Linkolan ohjelmasta. Porvoo: WSOY, 1986.
* Linkola, Pentti: Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun. Porvoo: WSOY, 1989.
* Ekologiseen elämäntapaan: johdantoartikkeli. Yliopistopaino, 1996.
* Linkola, Pentti: Voisiko elämä voittaa. Helsinki: Tammi, 2004.
Also:
* Kämäräinen, Kauko: Linkola, oikeinajattelija. Tampere: Määrämitta, 1992.
External links
* Plausible Futures Newsletter Traces Linkola's career in the Green movement, and the connections between fascism and ecology (he has often been called an "eco-fascist" - some say he styles himself one).
* Church of Euthensasia reports a Wall Street Journal-Europe interview in which he expresses the view that World War III would be: "a happy occasion for the planet.... If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die."
* Who is Pentti Linkola? More quotes and information from a supporter's website, including his feelings about the human race:
"Such a lousy animal species that it would not survive even one million years, even though all now extinct species survived much longer."
* Finnish-English translation project of his 2004 book: Voisiko elämä voittaa A project aiming at bringing writings of Linkola to a wider audience, still at its early stages but steadily going forward.
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