Pentti Linkola

Person · Open Library

Works

7

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Film & TV

Acting · Helsinki, Finland

Known for

• Politiikka-Suomi — Self2021
• Fisherman At His Nets: Fisherman Linkola — Himself1996
• Fisherman At His Nets: Linkola the Ornithologist — Himself1996
• Cry, Beloved Land — Himself1988

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Finland

Active from

1955-07-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

18

Total plays

59

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Positive matrix factorization: A non‐negative factor model with optimal utilization of error estimates of data values

   · 1994 · cited 5,008x

2. A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD

   · 2011 · cited 3,998x

3. FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

   · 2023 · cited 3,775x

4. European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern

   · 2006 · cited 2,584x

5. Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

   · 2019 · cited 2,377x

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Quotes

• “What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides of the boat.”
• “How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning.”
• “Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent.”
• “It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption.”
• “Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world.”
• “Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970’s winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake. . .”

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Key facts

Born

Kaarlo Pentti Linkola , ( 1932-12-07 ) 7 December 1932, Helsinki , Finland

Died

5 April 2020 (2020-04-05) (aged 87), Valkeakoski , Finland

Subject

Ornithology , environmentalism , nature , deep ecology

Notable works

Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis (2011)

Notable awards

Eino Leino Prize , 1983

via Wikipedia infobox