Captain Planet: "Population Bomb" (Pt. 1)

Captain Planet: "Population Bomb"
Episode: 21
Season: 1
Original Air Date—27 April 1991

Captain Planet prevents part of a wall breaking and falling on a crowded street in an overpopulated city. Back on Hope Island, the Planeteers learn that the world is very overpopulated and some countries try to slow it down. Wheeler, annoyed at the idea of anyone recommending how many children to have, goes out windsurfing despite an approaching storm. He's blown off-course and is washed up on an island with a miniature city. The inhabitants, genetically-effected mice with human characteristics including overpopulation and its resulting polluted land, capture Wheeler for food. His kind warden, Piebald, saves his life and the totalitarian government decides he should be shown to the masses to prove their society is well-off instead. When they learn about the Planeteers, their army attacks Hope Island and capture Linka and Kwame for slaves as well. Wheeler has to cooperate with the government to spare Piebald trouble, and think of a way to successfully rescue humanity...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Captain
• Planet
• And
• The
• Planeteers
• Capitan
• Planeta
• Los
• Planetarios
• Kwame
• Wheeler
• Linka
• Gi
• Matti
• Gaia
• Ma-Ti
• Hoggish
• Greedly
• Rigger
• Looten
• Plunder
• Argos
• Bleek
• Pinehead
• Brothers
• Sly
• Sludge
• Ooze
• Tank
• Flusher
• III
• Duke
• Nukem
• Leadsuit
• Verminous
• Skumm
• Rat
• Pack
• Dr.
• Blight
• Zarm
• Mal

[lemakk72]

CaptainPlanet, I would like to thank you for posting this insightful episode. This episode is both intriguing and sad to watch. It's true overpopulation is a huge dilemma, but sadly people are too ignorant or wild and have too many children. I wish that people would wake up and change their ways; maybe if there were fewer people, then we wouldn't have to worry too much about climate change. Life would be a lot better with fewer people on the planet and there wouldn't be a scarcity of resources.

[CosmicSignificance]

Wheeler is buff!

[SnrRaphaelTortuga]

@lzardo2003 The US fertility rate is only 2.06, ever so slightly above replacement. The major source of the pop growth in the US is due to immigration. Immigration is obviously a tender spot few people are willing to poke simply b/c of the risk of sounding racist. As for the 'problem' with a drastic pop decline, it's mostly economic. If 10 people rep those working Americans paying into S.S. and they each have 1 kid that means when those 10 retire there will be 0.5 as many people supporting them.

[SnrRaphaelTortuga]

This is why children's cartoons with 'super' heroes shouldn't be used to discuss hard core environmental issues. The forum just necessitates a more mature setting to fully take into account the true issues. Population size is not a simple more or less people issue. You also have to take into account per capita consumption, economy, culture, and many other contributing factors. Also, mice are a poor analogy. A single litter is 10-12, far more than the 2.47 global fertility rate.

[pronatalist]

@lzardo2003

Isn't it obvious, why we really do need so much pop?

Because more and more people would be glad to live.

I am quite sure, the reasons many parents have so many children, are PLENTY GOOD ENOUGH.

There has to be some way for people to go on having their precious darling babies, in a world of so many billions of people. Aha!, there is. Should be obvious.

There can come to be more places with lots of people and fewer places far from people.

Anti-pop is pagan anti-God view.

[lzardo2003]

@NortonAV2010

In the opposite way? You mean, because population is declining in the first world (actually, just in a few countries, in USA it´s still growing, and fast) it´s unsustainable?

Why do you think we need to keep the current population? most first world countries would not be able to feed their population without food imports, besides, most of those countries survived very well with just half the current population, which means, the population they had mere 50 years ago...

[DarthCadeous501]

@NortonAV2010

If I had unlimited funds and could travel the globe easily I would.

[NortonAV2010]

@DarthCadeous501

It would be hypocritical to not do so. Go tell the people in China, India, and Africa who are breeding unsustainably to quit doing so. You shouldn't peddle this to the first world, whose birth rate is unsustainable in the exact opposite way.

[DarthCadeous501]

@NortonAV2010

I never said it wasn't. However, you take the time to come onto YouTube to tell people to kill themselves when they think overpopulation is an issue. Unless you're willing to also fortifte your life, you can't make that statement rationally.

[NortonAV2010]

@DarthCadeous501

That's a rather elitist, and hypocritical attitude there, cap.

[DarthCadeous501]

@NortonAV2010

More important than you. You are one person who's family would probably disown you if they knew the type of things you post. Meanwhile I have a loving family with numerous people who love me and my family.