Pentti Linkola: Biography

Pentti Linkola was born December 7, 1932 in Helsinki, Finland. At college he became a naturalist, writing his first book at age 23. However, it wasn't until fifteen years later that he became an ecological activist of the most serious kind: those who believe humans must set aside individual desires in order to preserve nature.

A retired naturalist now, Linkola earns a living by fishing from a rowboat and selling his fish to local people from a horse-drawn cart. He avoids modern technology as much as possible and is well-known only in Finland. Throughout most of the industrialized West, his ideas are considered "fascist" and made taboo, thus there are very few examples of his work available outside Finland.