Iceland is a place of desire - but also represents state bankruptcy, natural destruction and, subsequently, a decisive rejection of the political establishment. In his bestseller ‹Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation›, Andri Snær Magnason (*1973) depicts the way in which the Icelandic government attracts investors with Iceland's ‹green› energy potential, in order to economically strengthen the emigration and unemployment ridden East Coast. He criticizes this economic prosperity, which comes hand in hand with the destruction of the unique Icelandic landscape and the exploitation of natural resources for short-term profit. The poet, filmmaker and children's author Andri Snær Magnason is recognised as a representative of a visionary, forward-looking ecological movement that brings conventional economic principles into question.
See also ‹DREAMLAND› (Film).
