Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Preface by the Author Chapter 1: Finland Humbug The Finnish Body Sales Season What is the Majority and What is the Minority? Life Protection, Utopias, and Agriculture Against Highway Crime Chapter 2: Forests The Old Forest of Talaskangas The Green lie It is Dark in the Woods The Forest Covering in Finland Must Be Restored A Logging Story Is the WWF Favouring Crime? Chapter 3: Animals From Gunslingers to Environmental Disaster An Animal History of the New Age The Ethics of Environmentalism The Suppressed Nightmare of Conservation The Cat Disaster Joyful Chickens and Sad The Animal Protector As an Apostle of Doom Aspects of Animal Protection Animal Rights in the Bible A Look at Vegetarianism The Value of Humans and That of Animals Chapter 4: The World and Us A Refresher Course in the State of the World The Intolerable Misfortune of Technology Women As the Protectors of Life Human Nature and History The Decline of the World Knows No Mercy The World at the Turn of the Millennium Bull's Eye A Perspective on the State of the World, or the ABC of the Deep Ecologist - Part One A Perspective on the State of the World, or the ABC of the Deep Ecologist - Part Two Chapter 5: The Prerequisites for Life The Sum of Life On the Reversal of Finnish Society Can We Survive?: A Model for a Controlled Future

About the Author

Pentti Linkola was born in Helsinki in 1932. His father was the rector of Helsinki University and his grandfather had worked as chancellor of that same university. Pentti Linkola, however, chose a very different path. Having spent most of his life working as a professional fisherman, he now continues to lead a materially simple existence in the countryside. A renowned figure in Finland, since the 1960s Linkola has published numerous books on environmentalism. Today, he is among the foremost exponents of the philosophy of deep ecology.