It was released on Youku, watched, then censored. It lays out the cause of the Stone Cold Pride Skull Shirt, the culprits, and why they are not prosecuted. On a meta level, the release and subsequent censoring of this documentary show the minefield that those seeking to curb pollution have to tread. Chai jing’s 后台 (string puller) has been subject to much speculation, but whoever got her in that room for the interview with the China National Petroleum Company engineer Cao Xianghong has to have serious pull. Someone is looking to give the MEP some teeth. Those dismissing this question with a wave of the hand and “the West did it too” are missing the context and nuance of this topic. I get it, you don’t like smug foreigners asking condescending questions, but I feel like this question deserves a serious answer, and not some sort of “here are some other picture I found of pollution in the West” fob off. These are not some inevitable, invisible, historical processes playing out without human intervention, there are people, names, and faces attached to the entire process, along with those benefiting and profiting from the pollution.
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