![]() The Captain Planet Foundation is currently hosting Project Learning Garden 2020. I introduced myself – I had to prove I was for real by reciting my catchphrase, “The power is yours!” – and suddenly found myself on stage addressing 3,500 people while still dressed for the gym. “Everyone knows Captain Planet, mate!” came the reply. Somebody had a Planeteers poster over his head, so I asked him how he knew the show. I was in New Zealand once for a commercial shoot, and encountered an environmental rally. Children are the only demographic on the planet who aren’t motivated by profit. I’d dreamed of seeing environmentalism incorporated into the school curriculum. When production ended, I wrote to Al Gore, inspired by his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. I wrote to Greta Thunberg recently: if she’s reading this, Captain Planet would love to help out. Younger people are becoming more vocal and doing the job that we adults have neglected. But I do think the conversation is changing now. The show was very prophetic in many ways, and it’s alarming that the knowledge that fed into it has been ignored for so long. There was one scene where MAL, the evil computer voiced by Tim Curry, gloated about pollution causing stronger storms and melting the Greenlandic ice sheet. This wasn’t a swipe at Bill and Ted, or Snake from The Simpsons: it was just the voice that, in the early 90s, represented total irresponsibility. It’s fun to play a bad guy, and I enjoyed giving Captain Pollution – Captain Planet’s evil clone – a valley accent. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo Captain Planet himself is a metaphor for international cooperation, with a penchant for bad puns and 60s music. Heart is the most important power, as without it there can be no compassion. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, called them together when the degradation of the planet became too dire for her to bear.Įach Planeteer controls a power of nature: earth, wind, fire, water – and heart. He can’t exist without the combined powers of the Planeteers. The world didn’t need another male macho superhero, so we made Captain Planet the quintessential antihero. The Planeteers and many of the characters were based on real people. We lifted the characters and locations from environmental documentaries I had made with Nick Boxer. He said: “That’s your problem.” And my problem it was. Ted called me into his office and said: “Captain Planet.” “What’s that, sir?” I asked. The group will be tested again before the match.Captain Planet is a metaphor for international cooperation with a penchant for bad puns and 60s music. The key words are: adaptation and reaction. Sipili Falatea (extra player) was still on the road to Clermont and turned back. ![]() He couldn’t speak loudly but I told him, ‘Congratulations, you’re on the match sheet,'” said Galthie. “Matthis Lebel had just landed in Toulouse. It was also quite a moment for the replacements, Matthis Lebel and Sipili Falatea, who both found out barely hours after leaving the camp that they would, in fact, be travelling to Cardiff. I feel for them, their families and their friends.” Damian Penaud and Romain Taofifenua heard the news this morning, while packing their bags. “We are very sad for the two players sidelined,” said Galthie in Midi-Olympique. Last-minute cancellationsīut that is small misfortune compared to that of Penaud and Taofifenua, who both received the news of their positive tests as they were getting ready to travel to Cardiff. Damian Penaud and Romain Taofifenua will both miss Friday’s France-Wales clash because of Covid, and France coach Fabien Galthie is preparing for more disruptions.Īn uneven week for France has also included a major injury scare for scrum-half and captain Antoine Dupont, who has taken his place in the starting line-up despite being invalided out of training on Tuesday.
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