Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)
Kwame's Crisis (1991)
LeVar Burton: Kwame, Opening Narrator
Quotes
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Kwame : The problem is too big. And people will never change.
[starts to cry]
Kwame : I have failed.
Gaia : [appears] Hello, Kwame.
Kwame : Hello, Gaia.
[sniffs]
Kwame : How did you find me?
Gaia : I knew you would go to a forest when you needed to think.
Kwame : I think very soon *this* forest will be buried in garbage.
Gaia : I know things look bad, but you see the scar on this old tree? It almost died in a fire years ago. It did not give up. It kept on growing. Look around. The forest is full of reasons for hope.
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Kwame : I was wrong. And Sludge was right; people just do not care.
Ma-Ti : You must not say that. Captain Planet will deal with Sludge.
Kwame : [sighs; morosely] Very well, Ma-Ti. Let out powers combine. Earth...
[his ring glows and hums weakly then dies down and emits smoke, he cries as the others stare in shock]
Gi : Kwame, what's wrong?
Kwame : I will *tell* you what is wrong! This problem is too big for even Captain Planet! It is hopeless.
Gaia : [appearing] Kwame, you must not give up hope. That is the source of your root of power.
Kwame : Then it is too late, Gaia. How I can believe in people when they turn their own world into a trash-dump?
[removes his ring]
Kwame : You must give this to someone else. It does not work for me anymore.
[tosses it in the air, it vanishes with a flash that briefly blocks Gaia's image before she is seen again, looking pained]
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Gi : [at the Planeteer Alert, taking place in a grocery store] Most everything we buy will some day be thrown away.
Ma-Ti : So try to buy things that can be reused or recycle.
Linka : Lots of packaging material may make something look better on the store shelf, but it doesn't make a better product.
Kwame : More packaging only means more garbage in overflowing landfills.
Grocer : Paper or plastic?
Wheeler : Save it. We brought our own.
Captain Planet : The power is yours!