Pentti Linkola

Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 – 5 April 2020) was a Finnish radical deep ecologist,Mika LaVaque-Manty, "Arguments and fists: political agency and justification in liberal theory", Routledge, 2002, p. 159. ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. 
Works
He wrote mainly about his ideas and in Finland was a well known free-thinker.Henry Minde, Svein Jentoft, Harald Gaski, "Indigenous peoples: self-determination, knowledge, indigeneity", Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., 2008, p. 100.George C. Schoolfield, "A history of Finland's literature", U of Nebraska Press, 1998, p. 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.Turtiainen, Pekka: Kalastaja. Sääksmäki: Voipaalan taidekeskus, 2015.
Claims
Linkola blamed humans for the ongoing degradation of the environment. He promoted rapid population decline to fight the problems commonly seen in overpopulation.

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