Pentti Linkola has been introduced in the past few months to myself and others with whom I share environmentalist convictions. Linkola is a Finnish environmentalist who has a particular interest, and as his new book demonstrates, a limitless familiarity with Finland and its flora and fauna. While Linkola’s awareness does not reach far beyond Finland, the scope demonstrated in his book definitely does. Linkola’s views are radical and his works are definitely a reprieve from the contemporary environmentalists. Linkola’s new book, “Can Life Prevail?”, is worth-reading for all Aryanists as an introduction to the particulars of European and Finnish environmentalism as well as a sufficiently radical and total solution to this problem.
Can Life Prevail? Is one of the few environmentalist books I have read. It seems that in the many years Pentti Linkola has spent immersing himself in what he believes to be the proper, natural and most healthy life; that is, a life in constant contact with nature. It is immediately noticeable that Linkola is an idealist, which is most likely why his views are so extreme. Linkola recognises that Western culture and humans themselves are the problem. Linkola is a true radicalist and wishes to truly revolutionise the lifestyle of humans, not simply for sustainability and maximum exploitation, but for the ultimate health and happiness of all life. As a taste of Linkola’s beliefs, I will quote parts of the last section of the book.
A Demographic Plan
The cornerstone of any population platform is the dismantling of the freedom of procreation, the most senseless form of individual freedom. Puzzlingly, this policy has only been implemented so far in the country with the oldest culture of the world: China.
Procreation should be licensed: on average, every woman should be allowed to bear only one child. This policy should be followed for several generations, until a sustainable population is reached. The quality of the population must in all cases be taken into account as well: procreation licences would be denied to homes deemed genetically inadequate or unsuitable for the raising of children, whereas families capable of providing a stimulating environment for children would be granted several licences.
Energy
Fossil fuels, including peat, will be abolished on the first day the programme is implemented. Even the production and distribution of electricity ? the harnessing of which should probably be seen as a great misfortune in the history of mankind ? will largely be brought to an end. Electricity may continue to be used as a source of energy by the media and to illuminate rooms (strict quotas would have to be set in this case); but street lights and other external lighting would be banned. Households, as well as businesses, will have to switch to manual labour.
Other power plants will be demolished. The worst kind of plants, energy dams, will be the first to go. Indeed, the waterpower has caused the third great ecocatastrophe alongside the clearing of fields and the forest economy: the faltering of our whole marine economy. The new policy will restore our waters to their natural state.
The Collection of Carbon Dioxide
The only large-scale method of removing the colossal surplus of carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere is by absorbing it with vegetation: firstly with the trees, then with bushes. In Finland, the mean volume of living trees on growing forestland now amounts of 70 cubic metres per hectare. This figure will be increased to about 400 cubic metres per hectare, which corresponds to the natural density of forests. Additionally, a significant amount of carbon is stored in fallen trees: this increases the more north the woodland is and the slower the decomposition. It will take about one hundred years to reach the suggested figure of 400 cubic metres.
Still, in order to deliver orders and announcements to the population, to maintain the media and literary culture (all of which must be preserved in order to sustain society), the production of paper will continue.
Reforesting a significant portion of field acreage is the most notable step that will be taken.
Agriculture, Industry and Wares
Farming will be organised in small units, while machines will be abolished and a major portion of the population will be made to practise light agricultural work.
Industrial manufacturing will be subject to licensing: no product will be manufactured unless there is a buyer in real need of its use.
Most businesses will come to an end. Only a handful of large corporations will be maintained: for instance, those linked to the production of equipment used for public transportation, bicycles and paper. These industries will be in the hands of the state.
Education
The school system will be cherished as the most precious aspect of society. Foreign languages will be removed from the syllabus and less mathematics will be taught. The greatest emphasis will be placed on all-round education (natural sciences, history, Finnish), sports, arts and, most importantly, civic skills (which the adult population will also be taught).
I would suggest reading this book which is a compilation of articles written by Pentti Linkola over more than a decade. Visit his fansite for more information.
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hi agree with this site and about the jews now i want to ask a qestion i am white but i am not pure my father was maori/polnesian/ and my mother white is there still hope for me?
Your question seems to be that of a troll. If you are sincere then the following is my response:
I never said that a requirement for Aryanism is to be a “pure” Caucasian.
I have read “Can Life Prevail?” and I don’t see in it anything Aryan and very little that could be described as fascist. The prime defining characteristic of fascism is nationalism and, although Linkola loves Finland, his affection is for Finland as a country, an ecological entity, rather than Finland as a nation, a political or cultural entity. Furthermore, Linkola does not meet other criteria for fascism: he has no place for national expansion by conquest or population growth, militarism, a mass militarized ruling party, admiration of manufacturing, technology or finance capitalism, anti-Semitism or racism. Nor does he focus criticism on feminism or communism. On the other hand he shares with fascists a organicist conception of community; yet, unlike the fascists, his view of community is not rooted in national ideology but in biophysical reality. Rather than communities being mobilised to further nationalistic goals, he sees communities operating autonomously: under broad national direction but not mobilised to contribute to national progress or aggrandisement.
I didn’t call him a Fascist. He is just known as an “Ecofascist”, probably only because of his “brutal” methods.
Regarding the Aryan qualities of Linkola, I would say that they lay in his methods: a will to act. He views the environment as a whole and not somewhat-linked issues (deforestation, species extinction, etc.) and reaches the only possible conclusion. However, his “philosophy” is not particularly Aryan as one easily notices with some comments he makes (about the drowning of cats) as well as his overt belief in the importance of man over beast.
Thank you for your reply. My reference to fascism was more of a response to the post from Julian. I have seen the term “ecofascist” used in relation to Linkola, but I think this is just sloganeering and a way of avoiding critical independent thought. “Fascism” is an emotive word and is used liberally and indiscriminately to criticise far more than is justified on the evidence. “Ecofascism” has frequently been applied by conservative populists to discredit deep ecology and even mainstream environmentalism. The term has thereby been smeared and rendered unavailable for Linkola’s position. Linkola certainly shares with fascists a contempt for democracy and a preference for strong authoritarian government – in his case to deal effectively with the emerging environmental crisis. I admire Linkola’s “will to act”. Like you I was puzzled by his apparently contradictory attitudes to nature and humanity. Sometimes he says man has priority over other animals, sometimes he condemns predatory animals - simply for being predators - acting as is their nature. Other times he writes about life as a system in which all species have emerging, active, developing roles and when he is writing along these lines Linkola looks at the biosphere through the eyes of a “deep ecologist”. I would like to hear more from you about “the will to act”.
Determining racial growth “whereas families capable of providing a stimulating environment for children would be granted several licences” [sic] would never work. Leftist administrations-like our own and most of Europe’s-would deem it necessary to enforce affirmative action into that plan (i.e., anti-white racial quotas) when determining “stimulating environments”.
Real change would never be enacted by law in the near future anyway-with Muslims in Europe and Mexicans in America-when one sees how outnumbered (i.e., outvoted) we’ll become very shortly. Environmental destruction and rapid overpopulation, by these invaders, will get much much worse before it gets better-if at all.
This is why White Nationalism was doomed to fail from its inception. White Nationalists are afraid to do anything which has the possibility of further decreasing their perceived control over the country.
Anyhow, if WN theories are correct - that Mexicans and Muslims cannot maintain Western civilisation - than there will not be much of an environmental problem as the effects of an industrialised economy will be non-existent.