For Earth Day last year, executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama released an episode of children’s show Ada Twist, Scientist that addresses climate change. Nine-year-old Ada and her friends are concerned about the planet — and not in a 1970s “reduce, reuse, recycle” way. 

Ada is troubled when her older brother, Arthur, announces he’d rather see a new superhero movie than engage in Earth Day festivities. (God forbid that children have hobbies!) Thanks to a magical wish upon a ladybug, she visits Arthur in a dream to take him on an It’s a Wonderful Life-style adventure. This George-Bailey-as-climate-alarmist version is bleak.