On TV and film screens, people with disabilities — both fictional characters and performers— remain almost solely on the margins.

Fearing for our planet isn’t just for Earth Day (April 22) any more. Consider that, in a recent poll, nearly 70% of Americans said they were worried about global warming, up eight points since March 2018; the proportion of Americans “very worried” has more than tripled since its lowest point in 2011. Environmental calamity has been found in speculative fiction at least since Jules Verne. But with human-caused environmental abuse increasingly seen as a genuinely global existen