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Straight out of the article: "India’s air quality crisis is usually most acute after the Hindu festival of Diwali in autumn, when hundreds of thousands of India
by alienallys 8y ago
Straight out of the article:
"India’s air quality crisis is usually most acute after the Hindu festival of Diwali in autumn, when hundreds of thousands of Indians release firecrackers".
I think Indian Hindus should go easy on their festival celebrations, especially given how it pollutes the already messed up air.
- jaldhar 8y agoFireworks are the best part of Diwali. Banning them would go over as well as mandating tofurkey on Thanksgiving. This is a big problem with environmentalism IMO. Thing which propenents think are just common sense get viewed as attacks on a way of life (aided and abetted by exploitative politicians.) and what could be rational public policy debate details into kulturkampf. I think there is a better solution. Last year New Jersey legalized firework sales and we celebrated Diwali with an arsenal which could make an Afghan warlord jealous. One of our guests visiting from India marvelled at how little smoke there was. So the best course would be to improve the quality of Indian fireworks then everyone wins.
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