In Pixar’s “Hoppers,” the protagonist is Mabel, an animal rights activist who fights a greedy mayor over a development project that threatens to replace a beloved beaver habitat with metal trees.
On the CBS drama series “Fire Country,” the heroes battle increasingly ferocious wildland fires for Cal Fire, as California’s Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection is known.
Hoppers (2026)Disney/PixarWriters: Daniel Chong, Jesse Andrews, Jordan Harrison; Director: Daniel Chong
Hulu’s moody political thriller “Paradise” depicts the near-future as a brutal period in which a cascade of global environmental disasters sharpen the divide between the haves and have-nots.
For decades, mainstream Hollywood entertainment generally shied away from environmental themes out of concern that audiences would see it as homework, or even worse, as proselytizing. But in recent years, there has been no escaping the real-life drama of climate-related disruption, and in some cases, devastation across the U.S. and in every corner of the world.
