Chai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 (full translation)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as an accessible, powerful introduction to severe urban air pollution, remembered also for being banned in China.
What it is
Chai Jing's 104-minute documentary on China's smog, with full English subtitles. A former TV anchor, she investigates what smog is, where it comes from and what can be done, prompted by her daughter's health problems.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2015 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec ak217 · 2015-12 · on “Beijing smog ‘red alert’ issued”
For an introduction to the problem, and to anyone who hasn't lived in a severely air polluted city, I highly recommend the documentary Under the Dome , released earlier this year and later banned in China: [this video]
Recommends miralabs · 2015-07 · on “This isn't an outtake from Blade Runner – it's the real Beijing”
I still remember 2001 when I first arrived at Hongkong to work. My first day at the office, I got teary eyed. I told my boss why is it so..he told me it's because of the pollution and I should drink lots of water. It is probably way lot worse now. I saw this documentary recently, [this video] it is a good watch. FYI China is also destroying marine life in the West Philippine Sea [LINK] [LINK]
Recommends bb101 · 2018-05 · on “Emissions of banned, ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 have climbed 25% since 2012”
China? Pertinent parallels with this part of Chai Jing's censored talk "Under the Dome"[1] (worth watching the whole thing actually). [1] [this video]
Cites auganov · 2015-03 · on “Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution”
Is it in response to that viral video [1] on air pollution that got banned a couple of weeks ago? Nice move. [1] [this video]