Kaarlo Pentti Linkola was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman.
19 Facts About Pentti Linkola
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Pentti Linkola wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker.
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Pentti Linkola fished on Keitele, Paijanne and the Gulf of Finland, and since 1978 he fished on Vanajavesi.
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Pentti Linkola promoted rapid population decline to combat the problems commonly attributed to overpopulation.
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Pentti Linkola grew up in Helsinki and summered in Kariniemi in Tyrvanto at the farm of his maternal grandfather, Hugo Suolahti.
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Pentti Linkola's father, Kaarlo Linkola, was a botanist, phytogeographer, and the Rector of University of Helsinki, and his grandfather Hugo had worked as the chancellor of that same university.
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Pentti Linkola had an elder sister, Aira, and a younger brother, Martti.
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Pentti Linkola lived in Signilskar in Aland and made ornithological observations.
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Pentti Linkola was involved in the Koijarvi Movement that started in 1979, but his views proved too radical for mainstream Green politics.
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In 1995, Pentti Linkola founded the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation, which concentrates on preserving the few ancient forests still left in southern Finland and other nature conservation.
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Pentti Linkola was married from 1961 to 1975, and had two children.
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Pentti Linkola died in his sleep at his home in Saaksmaki on 5 April 2020.
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Pentti Linkola believed that democracy was a mistake, saying he preferred dictatorships, and only radical change can prevent ecological collapse.
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Pentti Linkola contended that the human populations of the world, regardless if they are developed or underdeveloped, do not deserve to survive at the expense of the biosphere as a whole.
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In May 1994, Pentti Linkola was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal Europe.
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Pentti Linkola's writings describe in emotional detail the environmental degradation he witnessed.
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Pentti Linkola dedicated his 1979 to German far-left militants Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, stating that "they are the signposts, not Jesus of Nazareth or Albert Schweitzer".
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Pentti Linkola supported acts of terrorism such as the 2004 Madrid train bombings as he viewed them as disruptions to a society that is responsible for the degradation of the Earth.
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Haavisto said that Pentti Linkola had influenced generations of environmentalists, and while Pentti Linkola did not defend human rights, there never was disagreement about conservation.