Pollution Film Too Popular for Beijing’s Comfort — wsj.com

SHANGHAI—A few weeks ago, the guardians of Chinese cyberspace stepped aside and allowed a celebrated former TV anchor to deliver a long and impassioned lecture on China’s environmental meltdown. Chai Jing’s film “Under the Dome,” released on the Internet on Feb. 28, explained in graphic detail how all-pervasive smog blackens lungs, poisons arteries and stunts lives. Alone on a stage, like Al Gore in “An Inconvenient Truth,” she detailed how the coal and oil industries are complicit; how environmental officials are...

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