People are pretty isolated in communist jail cells and there is plenty of anxiety as to when they will shoot you in the back of the neck or train the dogs to rape you.

Huh? Did Gaiman not want filler material for the show? He does realize that his book couldn’t carry 4 seasons worth of material without adding more to it.

Oh, and if you plan to fly skeptical Americans round-trip to sniff Asian fog, you have just created enough pollution that each traveler would have to basically return to pre-industrial living for years to offset all the carbon spewed into the air by jet fuel.

China denies climate change. They are the reason why the Paris Convention failed. They produce too many carbon emissions to be offset by the entire group of nations ready to enact clean air policies. We could literally kill all cows and ban gasoline, oil and coal and global warming would still continue because China…

I’m not sure flying a lot of people to an area particularly disrupted by fuel emissions is the best way to get pollutant levels reduced in (that location’s) atmosphere.