Memories.....of a Hero

Before the recent media/political attention on global warming and the advent of BSM there was one hero who was teaching the kids about the dangers of pollution, global warming, over farming, deforistation, and eveyrhting the man kind is doing to destroy the mother nature. The hero was Captin planet: an environmental focused cartoon that occupied most of my mid-afternoons of summer vacations. Forced to stay inside, to protect ourselves for them sizzling hot sun of the typical Pakistani warm summer days, we spent most of out time by engaging in any of the following activites in order of preferences

• Trying to sneak out ( occupied around 70% of the time) but alas, a child can never sneak past throgh the sharp motherly eye!
• Fighting ( occupied 5 % of the time. There is not fun if there are no fights between sibblings, and i dont just mean verbal fight, i am refering to full on hand blows, pulling hair, biting, punchingm scratching or anything you can think of! i know sounds grusome but believe me it nice ot think back of your child and think of the fights.
• Watching cartoons ( occupied 20% of the time. after all they brain wrecking on coming up with strategies to sneak out , and the exhausting fights there is nothing more relaxing then sitting back in front of the tv and watching cartoons. Not just cartoons but also Sesamestreet. The most memorables cartoons are ofcourse Captin planet, Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, Pink Panther, Smurfs, Tom and Jerry..... and the list is never ending)
• Sleep ( 5% of the time, that was the last resort)

I would like to point out that this list differed substantially, when we were united with other sousins and friends in holidays, where most of the time wa spent on scheming and doing stupid stuff which was bound to get us into trouble. This is the fun in having big families.

So lets get back to captin planet. I will just outline the main concept behind it. Gaia represent the spirit of the earth who is awoke from a long sleep by the human activities destroying the planet. To combat the destruction, she creates 5 maigic rings to control the elements of nature. she sends these rings to five diffrent people ( Planetters) across the globe, who have the task of now defending the earth. Gaia uses her Planet Vision to discover where the most devastating destruction is occurring and sends the planeteers to help solve the problem. The Planeteers use transportation based on soler power in order to avoid causing pollution themselves. ( how cool is that! they dont just talk the talk but they walk the walk) In situations that the Planeteers cannot handle on their own, they can combine and magnify their powers to summon captin planet, who possesses all of their powers magnified, symbolizing that the combined efforts of a team are stronger than its individual parts.

Wow who would have thought that taking about global warming anf pollution will dig up all this nostalgic stuff. So here is the theme song of Captin planet. ofcourse the lyrics are attached so sing along. And THE POWER IS YOURS! ( to change your ways and try and make a small difference)

Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!

GO PLANET!

With your powers combined I am Captain Planet!

Captain Planet, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zero,
He's our powers magnified,
And he's fighting on the planet side

Captain Planet, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zero,
Gonna help him put us under,
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder

"You'll pay for this Captain Planet!"

We're the planeteers,
You can be one too!
'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do,
Looting and polluting is not the way,
Hear what Captain Planet has to say:

"THE POWER IS YOURS!!"

Btw the song is written by Phil Collins :)