"By
decimating its woodlands, Finland has created the grounds for prosperity. We
can now thank prosperity for bringing us – among other things – two
million cars, millions of glaring, grey-black electronic entertainment boxes,
and many unnecessary buildings to cover the green earth. Wealth and surplus
money have led to financial gambling and rampant social injustice, whereby
‘the common people’ end up contributing to the construction of golf
courses, classy hotels, and holiday resorts, while fattening Swiss bank
accounts. Besides, the people of wealthy countries are the most frustrated,
unemployed, unhappy, suicidal, sedentary, worthless and aimless people in
history. What a miserable exchange."
Todays is taken from Can Life Prevail? : A Radical Approach to the
Environmental Crisis. The 2009 book of Pentti Linkola,
a
radical Finnish deep ecologist,
polemicist, and fisherman.
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