Can Life Prevail?
by Pentti Linkola · first published 2009
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if you're interested in some more hot takes, try Pentti Linkola's "Can Life Prevail". Be warned about his views of democracy and the US. He opposed the consumerism of the US and sees democracy as "me, me, me" politics, where people vote for what they want now (or what they're told they…
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on “Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change” ↗I don’t think being a fascist has anything to do with deforestation. There’s a history of fascists wanting to preserve the “motherland”. Even views such as ecofascism as portrayed in Linkola’s Can Life Prevail? I only care about ecologically minded governments and I don’t care about left or right. It’s the only important issue at this point.
…Nordic countries, he is sometimes called "ecofascist", but this is an obvious cherry-picked overstatement of his views to my mind. I think only one of his books has been translated into English, though: "Can Life Prevail?" [5]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_Y... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Linkola…
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