Green Diwali!

For a change it felt nice to drive back from work. It was nice because the sky looked so fancy with multicolored crackers lighting it up. Now I am back home and I can still hear the loud bangs and cracks around. Let me look out the window, yes the sky is still lit up. Yes, Diwali is here and we as always proud to celebrate our culture. Last month there was Ganesh Chathurthi and I had a slight aversion to festivities after that, because after the celebration, the leftovers were polluted lakes where the immersion happened. I have heard the same story for Christmas too with the trees being cut down at a massive rate so Santa can come and keep the presents under it.

Ah another bang! That makes me come back to what I was gonna say here, Diwali is here, the festival of lights. I just did a quick google search and found that around 2000 to 5000 crores of rupees is spent during Diwali season by us to buy crackers. So now think about the chemical mix it contains. I don’t want to go into details of what all is in these crackers, but I can assure if you knew the problems that it can cause you will definitely not go near any of these. If you want me to list up problems with the same I can go on long, like Noise pollution, air pollution, health hazards, wastage of money and stuff like that, but enough!

I am not a big fan of lining up stats because I don’t think things like these should be advocated by hard stats but simple logic.  But still for stat hunters I saw figures online like 6000 ton of toxic garbage coming out of this one Diwali night. Also the scale of noise pollution and air pollution that’s happening is just massive on scale. So had fun breathing in the toxic dust? Happy Diwali to you I say.

I mean this is something we could avoid right? I know culture is a big thing for us but I believe nature should be our first culture. It was during the ancient ages but then we just got fucked up. But I think we are educated enough now to realize what we are doing and their consequences. I hope we all can go green on our festivities. Try this for a change http://www.greendiwali.com/
Happy Diwali folks! :D