Captain Planet! Who is the hero?
January 5, 2010
Our world is in peril, Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She gives five special rings to five special people. US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa. Ok! So seems like this played out into a reality except that they failed to summon the great Captain Planet to save the world.
by Marc Kjerland http://commons.wikimedia.org
Talking about the Copenhagen Climate Summit is like stabbing a dead meat. But nevertheless I cannot afford to miss the opportunity to stab. And I want to make this as simple as ABC so here goes:
- It is easy to ignore and deny something that happens right in front of us. Especially if you are a powerful country and you pretty much control the world.
- You sit through in total oblivion all the major issues in the world. Ignorance is bliss. Always. And then wait for it to finally melt and disappear. Did you know, apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012?
- A Scandinavian friend once said that Danes are the happiest people in the world. Pretty ironic , them being hosts to a summit dealing with crises don’t you think?
- The activism and the protests against the conference spoke volumes; more than the conference itself.
- The most magnificent part of the summit was 200+ countries attended the summit and both the developed and developing countries blamed each other. Nothing more fascinating that imagining a large group of delegates from all around the world playing the blame game and pointing fingers at each other.
- The reactions were splendid. Do not miss out on the common editorial 56 newspapers in 45 countries carried about the Summit.
- “Brokenhagen, Flopenhagen, COPenhagen, Dopenhagen, Mopenhagan, Gasemhagen, Hiemhagen…” What can I say but keep them coming!
- As always US is willing to lead. But what came across was a general lack of ambition.
- Some interesting pictures of global warming - time photo-gallery . There is still some serene ‘dying’ beauty about it.
- Just another proof of our very skeptical age.
- Yes, there is global warming.
- We should reduce our carbon footprints.
- Read this somewhere, “The Earth will save itself, that is what it does. It is the Human Race that needs saving.”
- In short, the UN and whoever involved has (OBVIOUSLY!) failed to deal with the biggest crisis in human history.
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i used to watch captain planet in cartoon network
and u r rite.. the much hyped Copenhagen summit was a miserable failure.. the only consequence was an irrelevant draft called the COPENHAGEN ACCORD.. It is just a set of guidelines that it not even legally binding.. in this pace i don’t think that the world is not even gonna survive till December 21st,2012..
all i ever learned in life was its very easy to blame someone or just anyone, but in this case we are all responsible for the destruction of earth, and i dont see any captain planet nor any magical rings here. its just big companies with a lot of money! The Copenhagen Accord sets the goal of limiting global temperature increases to 2 degree celsius. There is very little the U.N can do if all the countries don’t cooperate! some are big player of oil market! and why blame them when they are only supplying it cos we need it so badly? and yet here we are talking about a carbon-free world. bleh, insane i must admit! Only hope is left for the scientists to come up with an alternative for this
how about using water for everything? its carbon-free, isn’t it? h2o? haha 
No irony here, mine is an island nation. first to get extinct of global warming as we lie only few inches above sea level & what next on my mind is living life of a refugee. I am not sad, i am just sad looking at how the world is dying and i can’t help it! One day the world would say, i have nothing to give anymore! I pray one day a dark cloud shall fall upon us all humans and we shall all die a miserable death for treating our mother like this! amen! 