Dreamland Quotes

“Every one of us ought to look up the information and judge things for ourselves. It is striking how little the link knows about the chain. This ignorance is the more remarkable in view of the fact that the aluminium industry is supposed to be set to become the basis for our future quality of life, and for it people are prepared to hand over a beauty of world standards to companies that have repeatedly violated everything we consider most sacred.”
― Andri Snær Magnason, Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation

“Seen in its ugliest light, the aluminium industry come out like this: an ecologically sensitive forest is stripped away in Jamaica, clear forest pools are filled with red sludge and caustic soda, a shop sails off to Iceland, in Iceland a dam blocks off a valley, the land sinks under the weight of the water, clay is whipped up winds from the mudflats beside a reservoir, electricity is sold at give-away prices by the people that sacrificed their land. There are always two sides to a story: there are some very pretty flowers on the website.”
― Andri Snær Magnason, Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation