This documentary was very interesting and informative in many ways. First of all, it had a very wide range of evidence to support their argument about the pollution and smog problem in China.  They used not only data and tables, but they brought in interviews with doctors talking about health problems, used statistics showing correlation between pollution and lung cancer deaths.  They also used comparative historical evidence with other countries who have gone through similar crisis in the past to highlight the potential problems that could be in store for China.  However, the most effective form of evidence and argument that was used multiple times throughout the talk was the connection to average Chinese people, and especially when she makes a personal connection to the problem through the troubles she went through with her daughter.  The involvement of interview with average citizens as well as children offered a very interesting perspective on the pollution problem.  One thing that especially surprised me was the fact that a lot of Chinese citizens seemed to be unaware of the severity of the pollution, or that pollution even existed in their cities at all.  She even admitted herself that she, as a journalist, was fed the lie that it wasn’t smog that she was seeing on a daily basis, but simply just fog, and she embarrassingly admitted to buying into that story.  Even the workers in the factory that she visited seemed to be in denial about the fact that they were giving off so much pollution and their filters were not working properly.  So it seems that the main problem with pollution is not the smog itself and the health detriments, but just the need to educate people who seem to be being kept in the dark by the government who does not enforce many standards of carbon emissions.   Another interesting point that she talked about was that Chinese companies such as steel, technology, and big name companies such as Coca Cola who outsource Chinese labor, are overproducing goods, which has lead to the increase in emissions as well.  The government props up these companies and allows for the overproduction without regulation of emissions.   This increase in production has a ripple effect.  It leads to growth in infrastructure, which leads to increase in cars, which leads again to more emissions.