Further, I think the time will come when we won't be able to fix our air conditioners, there will be no electricity delivered, and we'll be saying "This is what we used to call a television and it showed video images." It takes two weeks for an air conditioner to be repaired now, and when those things accumulate, I'm sure a time will come when we must face the fact that even if things worked in the past nothing works now. A time will come when maintenance isn't kept up, so that power lines exist but electricity wont be delivered. I dislike it when people insist things will always keep progressing in the same direction that we're moving in now.
- Hayao Miyazaki, "Earth's Environment as Metaphor," in Starting Point: 1979-1996, p.421
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