The Ecosins of Pentti Linkola

An interview w Engl transl of Pentti Linkola, 76, in his old Ritvala homestead in August 2009 in a Finnish YLE TV program Ajankohtainen Kakkonen series Summer farm hand (Kesärenki).

Pentti Linkola is a radical environmentalist, a famous dissident ecophilosopher, and a fisherman in Finland. Linkola has written and lectured widely about his ideas for five decades and is highly respected in his home country. He lives materially simple life. He still fishes in winter time on Lake Vanajavesi.

Linkola blames humans for the continuous degradation of the environment. He promotes an eventual decline in human population in order to combat problems commonly attributed to overpopulation. He strongly promotes deindustrialization and opposes democracy for being the agent of wasteful capitalism and consumerism. He regards the proponents of economic growth to be dogmatic and ignorant of the subtle destructive effects of free market policy over the past two centuries.

Linkola has founded Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation (Luonnonperintösäätiö) and its co-organization Ikimetsän ystävät (Friends of Ancient Forest) to save and hoster ancient untouched forests in Finland. He also is a member of a deepecological Elonkehä (the oldest cultrue magazine in Finland) and VESL, Vihreän elämänsuojelun Liitto (Green Life Protection Union) that is the oldest Finnish green organization.

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[searilg]

You got it half wrong. What you see is part of more serius program and in every epsiode the interviewer goes and visit homes of different finnish celebs/other notable people and does some work there. I guess its supposed to be light hearted but doesn't ridicule or anything. I am sure Pentti knows this.. even though he doesn't own tv. The interviewer is like a farmhand or something.. they just try to be different from regular house visit+inteview thing.

[Artinnanen]

Do you know that Finnish is very long lettered language? Also it is spoken slowlier than English. Perhaps because of that it sounds for an English speaking like something is missing. I would say (as a native speaker) that almost 100 % of the spoken words are transcribed into English here. However the film is speenend up (the orignial edit) now and there, so it makes it look a bit hasty and you have to use "pause" in order to get into the rhythm.

[sodomye]

Too bad he got diabetes. Should switch to paleo-diet to get rid of it. Great thinker of our time.

[GTXMAN]

FInally I find someone who agrees with me ,I would love to speak with that man

[Incurable1488]

This woman and the people who sent her miss the fundamental point. It is not Linkola who is the king to judge humanity, but nature itself. Linkola simply speaks the words on behalf of nature - "humanity must go!" He is a prophet of the will of the forests and oceans, not a ruler of men.

[Incurable1488]

Holy shit, look at his fucking teeth. That's what happens when you go out into nature and eat real fucking food, your fucking teeth stay in your fucking head!

[vili1]

@Thisismynameffs everybody knows there isnt any..

[Thisismynameffs]

@satail Ok, well do you have maybe some better ideas than him how we gonna stop for example the ongoing 6th mass extinction that will statistically wipe out human mammals from the surface of this planet in about 300 years? Please I'd like to hear something close to a smart argument how we gonna stop that

[ahhhhjjjj]

I love how people try to censor other peoples comments by marking it as spam. Wow what a bunch of fascists.

[STABxYOUxRAWR]

@AntiFed1791

I hit puberty 15 years ago. And redneck inbreds don't frighten me.

[AntiFed1791]

@STABxYOUxRAWR

LOL give me a break, you danish puff. You've barely reached puberty. In America we eat your kind for breakfast.