Sandra’s Reviews > Beautiful World, Where Are You > Status Update

"I could not stomach the idea of having an abortion just because I'm afraid of climate change. For me (and maybe only for me) it would be a sort of sick, insane thing to do, a way of mutilating my real life as a gesture of submission to an imagined future. I don't want to belong to a political movement that makes me view my own body with suspiction and terror."

"When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture haven't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees arround it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. (...) Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth."

"After all, when people are lying on their deathbeds, don't they always start talking about their spouses and children? And isn't death just the apocalypse in the first person? So in that sense, there is nothing bigger than what you derisively call 'breaking up or staying together' (!), because at the end of our lives, when there's nothing left in front of us, it's still the only thing we want to talk about."

"People think that socialism is sustained by force - the forcible expropriation of property - buy I wish they would just admit that capitalism is also sustained by exactly the same force in the opposite direction, the forcible protection of existing property arrangements."