Status Updates From Orbital

Currently on page 37 of 136 pages. Had to check the cover - yes, it really did win the Booker Prize. I wonder if the judges thought it should win mainly because it makes you think about the environment? I don't think I've come to the 'awe-inspiring' or 'stunning' bit yet (quotes from critics on the front cover).
Makes me wonder about the Booker...

“And now maybe humankind is in the late smash-it-all-up teenage stage of self-harm and nihilism, because we didn’t ask to be alive, we didn’t ask to inherit an earth to look after, and we didn’t ask to be so completely unjustly darkly alone.”

“all beings are living in life-support machines commonly called bodies and all of these will fail eventually.”