It's wild because a lot of alien encounter stories the abductees talk about the aliens warning them of climate change.
They fly around and turn off nukes, wish they would fly around and turn off refineries
I wish they'd start throwing tungsten rods at the largest emission sources, and reduce the permitted threshold a bit every day
Aliens: We've noticed that most of your societies still don't use central economic planning, we've come with millions of years of galactic economic data that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt why you should-
Man in Black: bang
That's seems to be an underexplored topic in imagining aliens in media depictions: how advanced their knowledge of political economic theories are, given the great age of their civilization. It usually just falls back on some subconscious fear white people have about becoming the colonized by new colonizers from another planet.