Smog in China, these are people that Christ died for, have compassion on them.

L.A. Civic Center masked by smog on January 6, 1948. Courtesy of UCLA Library Special Collections - Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive

Courtesy of Metro Transportation Library and Archive

As a Christian we do not have the option of thinking, "It is not in my backyard, so no big deal."

Christ cares for each and every human being with a pumping heart who breathes the air of planet earth.

Don't even think for a second that He does not care about this.

Back in the fifties, sixties, and early seventies Southern California had "smog alerts."

When the air hit unhealthy levels of pollution more than 200 days or more a year.

The News Media would daily report the level of the alert.

On some days you could not even see clearly across the street by 11:00 AM.

Kids playing on the play grounds of their schools would have coughing fits for hours.

And then all that changed when manufacturing jobs were shifted from the USA to China.

California's air quality improved tremendously.

Now the transfer of manufacturing to China has given their air the problems we used to have, only much worse then we ever had.  

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

 It's one thing to see smog out the window day after day, it's another to find out how widespread the pollution is, or to see green beaches, exploded trees, and river water so polluted that it doesn't look like water.

 The U.S. would be where China is right now were it not for the people who raised enough hell fifty years ago that we have the EPA today.

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

  It has a very clear call to action with many realistic ideas of how to combat pollution.

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

 The order to take the videos offline was sent to all media companies.

 These orders are always secret, but a worker at the office of a Shanghai media company decided to leak the document.

In this document, the Public Relations Department (literally Propaganda Dept, but "propaganda" doesn't have negative connotations in Chinese) orders the video taken down and that all media organizations must cease covering the topic.

 It cites the upcoming Lianghui ("Meeting of Two") [wikipedia.org] government conference, and a pressing need for "online harmony" to precede those governmental deliberations as the reason, saying the public debate has gotten too popular/heated.

So it looks like they had a change of mind after seeing the massive response. Report also says the worker has been suspended.

http://www.ftchinese.com/story... [ftchinese.com]

http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/c... [boxun.com]

We have the full documentary here for you to view: