For environmentalists, the destruction of the ecology and civilization of Easter Island around 1400-1600 A.D. has long been both a mystery and metaphor or our times. ... Here too is a lesson for our time: we need to confront the class system and reorganize society in line with the needs of all of its inhabitants before barbarism descends upon us.
――明治大学 政治経済学部(2月11日実施)――2005年