China immediately bans awesome documentary about its massive pollution

[Tender Branson]

China takes Under the Dome anti-pollution film offline



The authorities in China have a removed from websites a popular documentary which highlights the country's severe pollution problem.

Under the Dome explains the social and health costs of pollution, and was watched by more than 100 million people online, sparking debates.

It was removed just two days after Premier Li Keqiang called pollution a blight on people's lives.

Standing in front of an audience in a simple white shirt and jeans, Ms Chai speaks plainly throughout the 103-minute video, which features a year-long investigation of China's noxious pollution problem.

At times, the documentary is deeply personal. Near the start of the documentary, Ms Chai interviews a six-year-old living in the coal-mining province of Shanxi, one of the most polluted places on earth.

"Have you ever seen stars?" Ms Chai asks. "No," replies the girl.

"Have you ever seen a blue sky?" "I have seen a sky that's a little bit blue," the girl tells her.

"But have you ever seen white clouds?" "No," the girl sighs.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31778115

You can watch the documentary with full English subtitles here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X2uwlQGQM

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Would be good if the people of China would finally wake up and start to think Green.

[politicus]

Would be good if the people of China would finally wake up and start to think Green.

It doesn't matter what the people thinks in China.

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Senator Ernst approves of their lack of an EPA.

[Sumner 1868]

Senator Ernst approves of their lack of an EPA.

I thought they had a token environmental board with no actual authority?

[Beet]

Disgusting.

[Beet]

Senator Ernst approves of their lack of an EPA.

I thought they had a token environmental board with no actual authority?

I just actually watched this, and you are correct. Also, how anyone could think such a documentary is ban-worthy is beyond me.

[Sumner 1868]

Senator Ernst approves of their lack of an EPA.

I thought they had a token environmental board with no actual authority?

I just actually watched this, and you are correct. Also, how anyone could think such a documentary is ban-worthy is beyond me.

To my knowledge, they've banned several other environmental films over the years. Apparently, they're not risking a possible demand that something be done.

[Storebought]

I have the view that every country that undergoes an industrial expansion will have unconscionable levels of pollution, especially in the early stages. The problem is that China has been polluting at a rate consistent with this "takeoff' stage for the past 40 years, and will need to keep doing so for another generation or two more.

The presenter mentions two postindustrial economies that lowered their pollution levels only after sizable reorganization (demolition) of their respective heavy industries, namely the US (automobile manufacturing) and the UK (coal mining). She even says that the British experience proves that "The government shouldn't subsidize backward-thinking, polluting, and unprofitable industries."

During the documentary, Ms Chai mentions in passing the documentary (advertisement for British Gas) Guilty Chimneys. It's three newsreels split in two videos:

Part 1
Part 2 

[politicus]

I have the view that every country that undergoes an industrial expansion will have unconscionable levels of pollution, especially in the early stages. The problem is that China has been polluting at a rate consistent with this "takeoff' stage for the past 40 years, and will need to keep doing so for another generation or two more.

The technological level is higher today. We know far more about how to prevent pollution than during earlier bouts of mass industrialisation, so that sort of sweeping generalisation is not valid.

The Chinese leadership made a choice: pollute now, clean up in the (distant) future, and their population is paying the price.

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China is making an effort to clear up. It really has no option but to help itself. Already coal imports are collapsing - which is really starting to mess with countries that have sunk tons of infrastructure under the belief China's coal use was always going to stay constant (hello Australia)