On the wikipedia page for "Captain Planet" a cartoon which sort of entertained me as a kid with action packed adventures in environmentalism, an episode is described wherein Captin Planet meets his arch enemy, Captain pollution. The fight is going in Pollution's favor, it says, until Planet "realizes that his enemy is weakened by natural elements such as clean soil and lava."Which is a lot like saying, if you were a super hero of some kind, that your only weakness is soy beans and toilets dropped from 30-storey windows. Cause, you know, the pit of molten lava just feet behind Captain Pollution was an arbitrary circumstance until the whole "Natural Elements" weakness occurred to our brilliant hero, Captain Planet. If you never watched the show, Planet was himself weakened by environmentally harmful substances... and hate (since they're pretty much the same things). But even on this token, how is lava the inverse, of say, radioactive waste? Then again, the creators of Captain Planet, foresighted as they were, probably weren't banking on their characters and plots being available to the general public 20 years later. Environmentalists...
By Dave Beauchene
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