PLANET LEAP: BLURB AND INTRODUCTION

 BLURB

 The Earth is almost dead. Women and men have wasted all the natural resources. The atmosphere is polluted and so are rivers and seas. There are no forests because trees have been cut down or burned. The use of products that destroy the ozone layer, have reduced this important shield to a minimum and acid rain is poisoning plants and animals. There isn't enough food to heal the world.

 Tow and Dame are on board the Scud, a Spaceship searching for a new world for humans to live. Will they be able to save the earth?




INTRODUCTION

 Aren't we human?
 Have we not eyes?
 Have we not hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions, fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer?
 If you prick us, do we not bleed?
 If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
 If you poison us, do we not die? **

**Adapted from The Merchant of Venice, By William Shakespeare.