Public sentiment regarding the use of green crackers during Diwali is largely negative and skeptical. Although some users recognize the introduction of green crackers as a potential step toward mitigating air pollution, there is considerable frustration over governmental interference in cultural practices. Many users feel that the focus on crackers diverts attention from more significant sources of pollution, such as vehicular and industrial emissions. The comments reflect a tension between maintaining cultural traditions and the need for improved air quality, with many expressing indignation regarding perceived hypocrisy in addressing pollution issues year-round.

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Puk yeah, natural selection taking its course 🤘🤘

Aggravating-Moose748

In delhi it's bad all year round. We're already smoking 5-7 cigs daily. Now it's time to just feel it.

cyclenidders

Then what index is this which reached 999 in most of the Delhi last night?

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Ambitious-Upstairs90

I want tai to tax the firecracker at the rate of cars and take tax again as air pollution tax … make firecracker so much costly that only few crazy rich people can afford it and boom find out who are these people and tax them more on their income … double benefit. … less fireworks and more money for government.

indianodysses

Apart from the air pollution,the absolute waste left on the streets and playgrounds left afterwards. Do people just don't care about cleanliness?

Apath_CF

WarpFactorNin9

I want to understand how something that's banned is so easily available and there is no action against people flouting the ban or the people selling banned things. Show how serious the governments are to get pollution in check.

[deleted]

I been to nepal for 9 yrs , i came from non firecrackers ban state and absolutely loved firecrackers but here in nepal it is banned and i am glad that the nepal banned because people here celebrate diwali by decoration and playing music no one cares about bursting their money and making loud noise for their entertainment aprt from pollution which doesn’t effect immediately animal babies and kid doesn’t get injured or scared vibes of diwali is positive here aside from firecrackers 🧨.

Intelligent-Bus2731

First, we fill the air with smoke and toxins, then act surprised when the air quality drops, and finally, we spend a fortune treating the very illnesses we created — it’s a full-circle investment in our own downfall!

piratekhan

The_Original_Joel

"But but but Muslims celebrate Bakra Eid"... Bolne waali public in 3..2..1

raajsterr

While these couple of days worth of pollution might not contribute much to the suffering of the whole year, keep in mind the pollutants are being released. The regular firecrackers contain a lot of toxic metals in high concentrations and those metals would remain in the environment for a long time.

While rockets burst at high altitude, the firecrackers which burst at close distance pose a threat of these toxic metals being inhaled eg. Sparkles, Chakri, Anar etc and who burst these ones the most? Kids.

Alternative: Green Crackers; costly but safer than traditional firecrackers

kaisadusht

heharam

What about lung scarring air pollution that was and will remain after Diwali as well?? Should we focus on a day/week worth of pollution or poison that we inhale all year around?

ay8788

HUm to patakhe bajayenge, hum apna hi jeena muskil karenge.

  
Delhi cancer cases are going to skyrocket in the coming years. Go Delhi!

Icetruckilr

Shi hai, the world isn't worth saving anyway. We need a universe reset.

G0FuckThyself

People don't care. Mind you if you ask them not to burn crackers, they have the audacity to do whataboutery and start accusing of religious intolerance. People just don't breath toxic air but they are literally toxic to the core.

Haan par mera hindutva ab khatre me nahi hai...  Agar me patake na jalata tho shayad agle hi din hindutva khatre me hota..

luxatioerecta

At this moment, the only way to deal with this nuisance is to ban all religious festivals for all religions. No one would back down if only they are impacted.

Ban crackers, ban eid animal slaughters (outside of a remote butchering facility away from the city), ban mosque sermons with mics, ban mics for Hindu festivals, as well as Christian sermons in public places. 

Become a religious agnostic country like China. Let people do religion inside their homes or their prayer places.

But Muslims celebrate Bakri Eid. What about non vegetarians slaughtering innocent animals. 

Just visit any of the RW subs and the brain dead chaddis have these talking points to counter you. Dumb as rocks.

I kind of thought it was a fundamental human right for all to be able to breathe.

CodRepresentative380

Bc ye har bar ka hai, kuch naya leke ao

:- netizens

addict-admiral

Buy back the homes and residential area.. pay back those legal taxes and property registration fees.. and then vaccant the land to plant new trees

1FastRide

Fuck you everyone who supports crackers on diwali. Fuck you fuck you fuck you. I don't even burst any crackers ever but today woke up coughing like an old man with a throat infection. Fuck you for releasing poison in the air for your bloody motherfucking enjoyment. I hope whoever burst crackers chokes on their own crackers' smoke and dies. motherfuckers

dubbleyoo

That’s just librandu propaganda. Jitna ho sake utne phatake phodo. 

/s if it was not obvious

Whomstdve___

How can you say that? It’s our sacred cultural practice. It’s our fundamental right to cause air, sound and land pollution. Fuck your lungs, your heart conditions and your basic sense of empathy towards other human beings and animals. My God is being appeased by causing country wide nuisance in the name of religion. /s

-Purple-turtle-

Ok_Choice817

The Frog doesn't care at this point even if the pot is boiling hot.

Rohit_BFire

327 isn't too bad, atleast for Delhi, we have seen far worse. This isn't to excuse the pollution and toxicity of crackers, just a general observation.

New-Present7953

Diwali is not even a reason for the pollution of Delhi !!!

FunnySignal614

gforgolu

the hypocrisy is unreal. diwali comes around once a year, and suddenly everyone’s an environmental expert, ranting about pollution and firecrackers. but where is all this 'eco-consciousness' the other 361 days when delhi’s air is basically poison from *actual* sources of pollution? here’s a reality check: you’ve got vehicles pumping toxic fumes nonstop, factories chugging smoke, garbage burning like it’s some daily ritual, and not to mention the lovely cocktail of construction dust and cigarette smoke hanging in the air.

and speaking of pollution, 'dil-luminati' concert where 40,000 people flooded into the stadium, partied, littered alcohol bottles, trashed the place, and broke sports equipment, forcing athletes to train on outdoor tracks for days​, the place was left in such a mess that the sports authority had to come in and do a full cleanup. but do we hear a peep about that? nah, everyone’s too busy posting concert selfies and acting like the garbage didn’t exist.

and the cherry on top? your fav celebrities and VIPs fly around in private jets, cause noise pollution at every big event, their fans litter like it’s an Olympic sport, and then have the audacity to act woke by telling us to use 'environment-friendly' paper straws. the selective outrage is laughable.

diwali’s 2-4 days, with firecrackers limited to a few hours. if that one celebration is your main target for 'saving the planet,' maybe take a step back. the real problem is the year-round mess that no one wants to address. unless you’re prepared to tackle delhi’s nonstop pollution, trash problem, and all the noise from events and parties, stop putting all your frustration on one cultural celebration. let people enjoy diwali without this annual guilt trip. fix the actual sources if you care so much, or else stop pretending to be the pollution police only when it’s convenient.

diwali happens for a max of 4 days, with limited hours for firecrackers. meanwhile, concerts, smoking, burning garbage, and endless littering pollute delhi *every day*, but you’re all quiet. if you’re that committed to ‘saving the environment,’ maybe start with the stuff that’s actually killing the air quality all year. otherwise, quit pointing fingers at a cultural celebration just for the sake of your selective outrage. but nah, let’s just wait until diwali to come out with our selective outrage and religious divide. if people spent half as much energy fixing year-round pollution as they do attacking cultural festivals, maybe we’d actually breathe cleaner air. so yeah, unless you’re ready to tackle pollution *all year*, maybe stop making noise about diwali and let people celebrate in peace.

respecting diwali doesn’t mean insulting or comparing it to other festivals. every culture has its celebrations, and each brings its own traditions. if we can celebrate music festivals, weddings, and sports events with noise and crowds year-round, we can surely allow a few hours for diwali without turning it into a debate on religion or pollution. let’s focus on solutions that respect *all* traditions, rather than using selective outrage to divide us.

Bhai kisan ko khuda jalane sea roko nahi toh pehle jese hal hoga

Anurag4one

Delhiites are in general a dumb lot, self serving, with almost no civic sense. Yes I'm Allowed one generalization and this is the one I choose.

sc1onic

I mean it’s their own children and elders who will suffer, from lung diseases, apart from everyone else. And you will find these mfs blaming the government for pollution then. But hey, it’s for god. So why not. Because god asked for this. He wants mass sacrifice.

Sadly, people see this as an attack on Hinduism. As a hindu, while I don't burst crackers due to non environmental reasons, I feel that diwali at it's core and from a religious pov doesn't need crackers to be celebrated.

DEAN7147Winchester

D-C-R-E

When people themselves want to live in a sewer, you can't do much.

Human stupidity and hubris will be the cause of its extinction which will be a good thing for the other species.

yashg

Air quality was fcked anyways. Just because crackers were burnt one day, every one started jumping @. Keep shut for a couple of days. Everyday pollution from vehicles is no problem, fix that first.

Mefrom

WalrusDowntown9611

Majority shows how to respect  the law and civic sense and rest of them follow 
But in India if deepawali would have been a Muslim and Christian festival and they would have burnt firecrackers then they would have been traitors and their houses might be in the danger of being bulldozed

Acrobatic_Fox_1057

selinakyle101

In Mumbai these fuckers we’re bursting crackers till 3 am then I fell asleep donno if they kept going

Scorpion-Mk3600

yes yes, 3 days of celebration caused cancer and being in the gas chamber rest of the years has no issue

Benimaru101

[this is a joke](https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/cities/delhi/story/diwali-2024-security-tightened-firecracker-ban-delhi-air-quality-pollution-2625969-2024-10-31)

Supreme Courts order is not strictly enforced by the state government. It’s a joke. Our leaders are a joke, the people even bigger ones. Let’s come together and kill our own children and elders. Blaming governments, talking left and right, Hindu and Muslim, … that’s all bs and is a convenient distraction from the truth which is that we suck as a society. We are inherently a bunch of hypocrites. We show the world so called fake morals and ethics. I am pretty sure, in fact damn sure, that of the people who flouted the rule, if any of their family members falls sick due to air pollution, they will be quick in blaming the government. And I don’t feel ashamed in saying this, but they will deserve it. Don’t tell me it’s culture and religion and god. On one hand you cannot say we respect nature and life and on the other hand butcher it. Hypocrites we are.

Someone will say, our ancestors sir, our books sir. We invented science sir. Could be, but they did actually respect nature and coexisted. We are just a bunch of hypocrites.

Their kulcha requires them to get cancer from Chinese traditions

ssjumper

Fucking arsonists. They don't care about the festival, just bigoted retarted brain-dead arsonists.

Consistent-Kale-6959

Hope Shri Ram punish those who doesn't care about Environment and Mother Nature.

Designer-Winter6564

Shhh dont bring up any facts. Let them deal with it in more few years...

MafiaRat23

And then these uncivilized Sanghis falsely claim they are "law abiding citizens".

MaheshMalhotra1

Delhi resident chaddhis specifically. they get into every RWA and bring religion into it.

backhodi

I'm not one to take political or religious sides but I recently saw a video where a person said that the authorities and everyone always had problems whenever it was a Hindu festival being celebrated. Not so much questions are raised when millions of goats are killed during bakrid, when thousands of trees are cut for Christmas trees. No, they only have problem when it's a Hindu festival. Celebrating Diwali creates pollution. Yes, it does. But cutting down trees isn't harmful for the environment? Killing millions of goats doesn't ring a bell to Peta? Fuck this hypocrisy

What is the reason for the drastic change?

Charlie387

Two and a half packs for anyone unfamiliar with cigarette packaging 

Accurate_Koala_4698

What happened on 27 sept 2024 to make it so clear?

Stoli0000

PotatoPieGaming

On the other hand that’s a lot of value, 50 cigarettes a day for free??

Justhe3guy

So this is what 1875 london or new york looked like, interesting

fauxbeauceron

I smoke 50 cigarettes at happy hour with a double of whiskey. Is this what my insides look like?

OfficeKey3280

systemsred

Decided to visit Delhi last year during this time. It was awful, I couldn’t breath and felt like I was dying the whole trip. Probably took years off my life!

DrS7ayer

Germainshalhope

sndream

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!

-ElDictator-

Reddit has taught me that india is a complete shithole.

Rogs3

if there's cigarette air, I also want beer water

MiCe7

I have similar pictures from Beijing 2017-2020. 

One day you look outside and the sky is clear and blue, you have a feeling it’s going to be a nice day. Two hours later the sky is gray and you can’t see 200 feet in front of you.

AF_International

i wonder if the city knows that they have to remove the plastic inside of the air filter. that's probably why it's not working.

lkodl

It is fascinating to me that there are people in this world who will mock cities with tons of pollution but will then turn around and say that mankind could never affect the climate or environment.

Lindvaettr

The exact same thing happend in Brazil some months ago. So i feel you my Indian brothers and sisters. Take care of your family, and fight so this never occurs again! 🙏🏻

pitzcod

Time of day shown would be nice, but still this looks very bad

Medium_Front8953

Cigarettes are expensive, this sounds like a deal.

redinferno26

![gif](giphy|6cFYYRYXCmS3hDAuXv|downsized)

Diggin_Durt

Thats crazy, cant imagine living in a city that destroys your health like that even if its only part of the year.

Wooden_Echidna1234

Beny873

Miserable_Ad7246

Smh, Ciggies cost an arm and a leg in AUS, mfers in Delhi be smoking it for free. **/s**

dwi_411

thelonetusker

I refuse to believe that it’s nothing more than air pollution in a span of 60 days. Thats gotta be weather related too.

jargonexpert

India seems like a shit hole. No reason for me to vacation there.

skunkman62

And somehow we were duped into thinking paper straws were a good idea.

donotressucitate

Wonderful-Exit-9785

Primal_Pedro

I went to Delhi last year. Beautiful city. With that said, I’d wake up in the middle of the night coughing and your mucus is noticeably black with soot lining the inside of your nose

aboysmokingintherain

Reading through the comments, why is everyone always so quick to defend India and their pollution? It’s such a detriment to the environment. Like how do people live like that in the modern world?

pizzaschmizza39

Honest question, how is there not government intervention on the crop burning. They're literally going to kill people with this pollution.

oh__hi_mark

If we ever migrate to another planet, please leave India on Earth and all its citizens/natives.

Lance_Vance_Dance_31

Why can’t government stop the farmers from burning their crop? 
This is the picture of a highly inefficient government .

Idiotsofblr

Hopefully this will be a wake up call to India to take climate change seriously

Aggravating_Sir_6857

N3rot0xin

Curious to see what the air quality index was in that area during COVID times…if it was significantly lower (better) maybe we should rethink certain priorities as a society.

I-can-speak-4-myself

What would an AQI of 13000 be the equivalent of?

Upstairs_Knowledge_2

have not read the caption and I thought this was your view before, and your view now after a building was built right infront of your window.

crazedhark

On the other hand, if you're a smoker, you can save up a lot by just going to Delhi.

Friendly-Target1234

India's Supreme Court has allowed the sale and use of 'green crackers' during Diwali, aiming to reduce air pollution.

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