Pentti Linkola | |
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![]() Pentti Linkola in 2011 | |
Born | Kaarlo Pentti Linkola 7 December 1932 Helsinki, Finland |
Died | 5 April 2020 Valkeakoski, Finland | (aged 87)
Period | 1955–2020 |
Subject | Nature, ornithology, environmentalism, deep ecology |
Notable works | Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis |
Notable awards | Eino Leino Prize 1983 |
Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 – 5 April 2020)[1][2][3] was a Finnish radical deep ecologist,[4] ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman.
He wrote mainly about his ideas and in Finland was a well known free-thinker.[5][6]: 271 Linkola was a fisherman from 1959 to 1995. He fished on Keitele, Päijänne and Gulf of Finland, and beginning in 1978 he fished on Vanajavesi.[7]
Linkola blamed humans for the ongoing degradation of the environment. He promoted rapid population decline to fight the problems commonly seen in overpopulation.[6]: 271