I wonder what the people who currently live near the Neandertal valley would think of this character? Personally though I feel a better role model for saving the Earth is to use an actual person. A flesh and blood human being doing good! Now hows that for a concept? These are the times when big purple dinosaurs, and what nots, are conceived as an outlet for the teaching of the realities in life to the minds of children. Then when they get older, the dissociation sets in, and the advice from such an unlikely source fails to make a real connection. However, a growing child will always associate a real person with reality, and any given examples will be sustained throughout that growth. Mythical and fictional beings have never succeeded in a realistic manner. Many fairy tales, such as Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Marry's garden, and others, were previously taught to children as coded political rumor because open opinion was dangerous and suppressed in those older times. However when these rhymes and tales are taught today, the children are not told of the original meaning, so the lessons may become abstract, and even inadvertently harmful. In school (I'm old) children were seen pushing down other children. The fat kid is pushed out of his seat and called Humpty Dumpty, a brother and sister playing together are pushed down and called Jack and Jill. The original meaning and intent are lost. Children are best confronted with real normal people when showing positive messages, or when leaning of consequences from misadventures.