Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)

Kwame's Crisis (1991)

Scott Menville: Ma-Ti

Quotes 

• 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] 

• 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!