![]() ![]() I wish Administrator Pruitt could feel my sad.ħ. Blight attempts to trash the work of a scientist.Įven when I try to make one of my post humorous, it gets sad as all of this terrible adds up. Quashing the work of scientific experts? Yea, Captain Planet and the Planeteers covered that too in the episode A Perfect World where Dr. It’s ironic that in the episode it’s the president’s science advisor with a conflict of interest – our president doesn’t even have an official science advisor.Ħ. Blight (one of the villains) is assigned to be the President’s science advisor and she incorrectly informs him about the harm of greenhouse gas emissions. ![]() Assigning conflicted individuals to scientific positions? Clearly, Administrator Pruitt watched the episode Greenhouse Planet that covered this when Dr. Yes, Administrator Pruitt really did that when he decided not to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, which affects the neurological development of children (mostly children of color).ĥ. When villain Looten Plunder took advantage of a disadvantaged community to continue the use of a toxic pesticide in the episode The Fine Print… ring a bell, anyone? Remember that time Administrator Pruitt hijacked the Environmental Protection Agency’s websites and deleted and altered a ton of scientifically backed information so the public remains ignorant to it? The Captain Planet villain Verminous Skumm sure does from the episode Who’s Running the Show, in which he hijacks a national environmental television show and spreads misinformation about environmental protection.Ĥ. You stole that idea from Captain Planet villain Looten Plunder in the episode Don’t Drink the Water in which he leads efforts to pollute the Earth’s water supplies with various contaminants.ģ. Allowing pollutants into streams and tributaries, which will affect people’s drinking water. Blight’s idea in the episode Heat Wavewhere she literally traps the sun’s rays under a thick layer of toxic smog, Mr. Administrator Pruitt’s plan to heat up the Earth’s atmosphere by trapping the sun’s rays under a thick layer of air pollution-um, that was the villains’ Dr. Here are at least seven times that Scott Pruitt has stolen their ideas.ġ. It’s time that someone gave credit to the Captain Planet villains. After re-watching many episodes, it has become clear to me that Pruitt’s actions to undermine scientists, deny climate change science, and increase pollution across our country have clearly been taken from the series’ villains’ playbook. ![]() I hadn’t watched the show for a very long time, until recently, when I was reminded of it by Scott Pruitt-the man in charge of environmental protection in the United States. A quality that is surely as important in environmental protection. Only later would I find out that Gaia was actually a drag queen who would not bestow upon me a magical ring but rather the power of fierceness. It gave me unrealistic expectations that there was indeed a goddess named Gaia who would one day bestow upon me a magical ring with which I would protect the environment. Captain Planet and the Planeteers (you can be one, too!) was a staple cartoon of the early nineties that I watched when I was a child. ![]()
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