Public sentiment regarding Delhi's air pollution following Diwali is largely negative, marked by frustration over both firecrackers and stubble burning. While many recognize the necessity of maintaining traditions, there is a strong demand for more responsible celebratory practices. The discourse reflects confusion about ongoing pollution challenges and a notable disappointment toward governmental inaction in addressing this pressing issue. Additionally, a segment of the population defends the use of firecrackers as a cultural practice, leading to mixed feelings about potential restrictions.

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At this point what do we even expect? India is not a country which puts public health and safety in high regard, not surprised. 

As for Diwali, last I read ear deafening explosives are not part of it, light diyas, make your house beautiful, look pretty, light a few small sparkles to feel good, eat good food, and enjoy with your families. Don't understand the obsession with blasting bombs that can literally kill people.

rahulsingh_nba

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god_is_a_pokemon

Elegant-Contract-316

They voted for this shit. Now let them lose a few years of their lives while my Apollo Hospitals share price goes up

Huge-Physics5491

While we, as a society are at it, why don't we just find list of carcinogens and start giving it to our loved ones.

I've misfortune of coming to Delhi during last two years at this zone of year. Breathing become hellish.

If some genius has idea of commenting on lines of - oh why only my religion or don't come to Delhi, they can print their ideas on paper, roll it &amp; shove it up their orifice where sun don't shine.

Baloo_Cat

itsVinay

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Mo_h

We should all introspect. What is the value of a culture that does not care for its vulnerable: the elderly, the newborn, the sick, the stray, its environment? Zilch. This culture has no value. 

And that is too bad... Because what could have been a celebration of lights, family time, food, has instead turned into a curse for those of us with breathing trouble. I loathe each and every rotten character that set off fireworks yesterday.

Wachkuss

This is what "Aa Beil, mujhe mar" means.

Only possible in India

ohmyhumans

Somewhere, someone would still be shouting and defending that Diwali firecrackers don’t cause pollution that it’s only the farmers who are to blame.

ravzzy

I'm a lawyer but this public appeasement approach by the SC makes me very sad. 
In TWO important public health issues they dropped the ball real hard. 1st, They went back on their stray dogs decision and now this 'Green Crackers' facade. The top court doesn't realise that there's nothing such as a 'Green' firecracker.

shwarmaa_naman

Why do you ppl only raise issues about pollution during Diwali? You'll don't seem to have problems with other festivals. 


Let's petition to burst crackers in every other festivals celebrated in India and then see if you'll raise your voice then


Bloody Aunty Nationals!!! /s

Fragrant-Talk6338

mrrandomguy42069

Tangy_Lead

There needs to be a comprehensive drive to cut pollution from Crackers, cut pollution from Factories, Treat waste more well and creating education and sense of accountability from the public. Although I have seen NGOs working on it a lot. These movements should start from the Center, State Governments ASAP. Direct Policy change

The factories vs Crackers argument is also not worth it when you are talking about increasing pollution and poison in the environment by even a Percent. We need empathy for our people. I hope someday we can eventually make it work.

tanmaybagwe

Same as last year - plenty of firecrackers were burst during the prohibition era. Might as well legalise it.

Thy_Gap_Slayer

r3d1t3r

TravellingJade

China previously faced this issue. The solution implemented was banning fireworks during Chinese New Year in major urban areas. While it didn’t stop everyone, it significantly reduced their use.

ketoyas

stop blaming the govt, and blame the people. Inn logo ko khudki sehat ki bhi parva nahi hai. I bet they bursted more JUST out of spite for green diwali initiation.

Outside_Ad5865

Also coincides with crop burning season in Punjab, hariyana, UP. That's the bigger reason. Diwali is celebrated all over India, yet this problem is Delhi specific due to the wind patterns and crop burning

Resident_Taste1845

Andhbhakts with firecrackers is like Americans with the 2nd amendment.

Responsible-Air-6190

But the war in east Europe and middle East. What about that?

Inj3kt0r

Diwali is not contributing to air pollution ,fire crackers are.

You can celebrate diwali without fire crackers.

Fire crackers and diwali are two different things.

divyaraj00

People are just living out their lives with what they feel is right. 

It is like ostriches have their heads in the mud and thinking that it is their entire world, whereas the world is limitless and beyond anyone's imagination.

People may be divided on the lines of race, power, religion, gender, but their thinking has always been the same.

Icy-Initiative-4998

80 of the top 100 polluted cities are in india. 

Head_Opportunity2651

Fire crackers, electric lights all this is just an imposed modern way of celebration which shows machoism, and show off. It literally is giving back nothing but people of this country are fool and they will keep on doing these things forever. Even gov can’t stop them as they have to stay in power

lazy-crazy-monster

You made some good arguments and some weak. I don't like firecrackers and neither my pet. Hence I don't do it. 

But you neglected the major contributors, Industries, Vehicular emissions and stubble burning. 

It's easy to blame people burning firecrackers for causing pollution but even if firecrackers magically disappear, AQI would still be in triple digits because neither government want to implement systemic changes not industries want to shift to greener alternatives. 

Blaming it on firecrackers is "greenwashing". They do contribute but if we tackle all issues we might see a substantial change, until then "Happy (koff koff) Deepawali".

lalqalam

We will not and We are not wired towards rational thinking and critical thinking ..We are a hypocritical society

Late-Pomegranate1492

Non Hindu here .. I don’t see Divali as being polluting. There are far more worse things Indians contribute in terms of pollution. I would rather have the decibel level toned down and an adherence to not bursting crackers during late hours.

kevnimus

Problem isn't about saying if this is contributing to pollution or not.. it is selective targeting.. why not ban crackers for good for all year around.. why are they allowed everywhere.. oh and also almost same amount of these would be used in new year celebration, there isn't a pollution issue then.
Next would come as animal issue, where it goes for other festival where they are literally killed and eaten for fun. What about these animals abuse when partying and celebration is done for Christmas/new year or other things. 

Is your air quality good days before and after, if not then there isn't a point to complain about it.

Zealousideal-Part849

Religion is a polarised and politicised subject in India. As soon as you say something that’s perceived against a religion, fact or not, you will be considered anti-religion.

Eg. Even in this perfect statement of yours, even educated people can and will challenge you that it is know fact that raising livestock for consumption creates far more greenhouse gases. And they are also stating a fact. 

Political wrongdoings of the past aka appeasement has led to us compare everything. 

Hence there is no longer a focused logical discussion that can yield a simple logical outcome

Pure_Assistance_7340

For some reason, I am not bursting any crackers for this diwali. But, now I'm feeling kinda good.

harvoishappy

You probably will be branded as such.

More than firecrackers, I feel bothered by the year round presence of dust in the unswept roads, roads where the drain entrances are comically at higher grade and the dust never washes into.

This picture I took, this situation extends about 2 km either side in both directions.

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No_Pitch6380

Well the thing that i dont like is why not actually use firecrackers instead of bombs. Like they are bombs. (while scrolling i saw another post talking about this) ok what happened to fuljari and stuff. Fireworks are fine too but the bombs are just not acceptable man. Like even right know they are igniting them and well varous car alarms get triggered. Like I dream of a day when i might get to see my beautifully lit hometown in all its glory at least once in my life. I did try once though but a few kids nearly blew me to bits. Like where I am from the cm is trying to promote these local made bombs ok by saying that they pollute less and we should support the local industry while last year he was like firecrackers bad no sale and this year this. Also AQI gets temporarily worse during diwali but the fact is even without bursting of firecrackers our aqi will be worse so my issue is with the literal bombs. Although banning atleast these bombs might be the right step as even various countries with great aqi quality burst a lot of fireworks on special occasions.

AdDeep3026

You are a logical Indian and I don't see the reason why fire crackers need to be bursted.

I didn't burn any crackers in last 12-14 years...Just eating good food on festival 

Mark19914

Ofcourse you are. The moment you try to slip in logic within traditional boundaries, you become anti (name of religion)

_HuMaNiSeD_

I hope you make the same statements during festivals of other religions.  
That being said, Diwali is a festival of lights,  not of fire crackers

Gullible-Ad-1843

For that statement you'd be blamed as an anti-hindu. Use of firecrackers chokes in air and that causes pollution and not Diwali. So maybe if you can correct that statement - maybe no one would judge you.

But if you look at constituting factors, is it just the Crackers that cause the pollution? Doesn't the day to day human consumption add to it? Why just stop at Air Pollution - Air, Sound, Water and Soil? What about these?

1. Factories within cities
2. The household pollution 
3. The animal breeding centers 
4. Textile, Iron/steel, Refineries, chemical units etc. What about them?
5. Plastic

A well informed activism gives anyone a chance to shut others mouth. But more often than not, we end up jumping to conclusions and indulge in useless dialogs with random folks. 

I've stayed in Delhi for few years. And crackers on the day of Diwali is very minimal compared to stubble burning, the power plants around Yamuna and those Factories surrounded Delhi and to top it the amount of Construction and the geography. And look at amount of Vehciles etc.

And I stay in Hyderabad and the air quality is bad here too. It's at 136 today and it's not Diwali yet. So, blaming just Diwali for it is just one of those rheotircs which have been slandered only during the festival. 

I wouldn't just stop at Diwali, but the more impending questions according me to are:
1. Minimising household consumption. Be it Gadgets, Food wastage etc.
2. Industrial waste policy. Everyone knows how waste is dumped directly
3. Sustainable agriculture practices
4. Moving away from coal based power generation units.
5. Doing away with fossil fuel vehicles. 
6. Better sewerage treatment and disposal.
7. More trees and plants across the cities. Urbanisation has screwed us badly.

wythan7

Yea ofc diwali the festival of crackers
We have been flying rockets since ancient times it has been amazing 
Diyas were never part of diwali they are just propaganda 
We are cooked guys , people have now even forget the meaning of the message of diwali 
Nowadays diwali is a day to burst a fkton of crackers

opgamer001

Most of our pollution is caused by burning of fossil fuels and not by using firecrakers, which is essentially a drop in Ocean. 

If we really want to reduce pollution and natural oil dependancy, we must invest in renewables instead. India has literally the best geography for renewable potential. Western and eastern ghats provide massive wind and hydro potential. There is abundant sunlight basically anywhere in India. And north India  belt also has massive hydro potential (Ganga and Bhramaputra).

All I'm saying is banning fireworks will not affect the AQI of our country in any meaningful way in the long term.

Training-Rest-4903

Regarding your title- did you want to write ‘non’ or is that an error?

ag3ntweird0

I get the point and agree with that too but if firecrackers are banned they should be banned as a whole. Criticising their use during Diwali while allowing people to celebrate wins in tournaments or weddings doesn't sound fair. It feels like targetting a particular religion. So if there has to be a ban it should be a blanket ban. But then there would be a great loss of livelihoods.

Randomwanderer_1234

Halfblood6801

But didn’t it start getting worse before Diwali? And it’s mostly cuz of stubble burning. ☺️☺️

jishnu252001

Lol yes same like if you question bjp for your own tax money you are anti national

Such-Emu-1455

well it indeed does contribute to the pollution to some extent 

you  cant forget the stubble burning that happens around this year

on christmas people cut trees in millions so lets put a ban on that and crackers and no killing of animals on bakri eid too

the thing is people only start saying stuff like this on hindu festivals thats why people usually oppose these decisions 

ban firecrackers on weddings new years etc etc and i will whole heartedly not burst a single cracker my life

ig_deimos

I haven't burst fire crackers on diwali for the longest time now, maybe 1-2 decades. We just pray and light Diyas.

kornslug

Some foolish people will say that. Year by year many started bursting the crackers and the pollution level is keep on the raise.

We are responsible citizens should celebrate green diwali without using crackers. 

govt should take respnosiblity and curb pollution. The vehicles count is keep on the raise. Already air in delhi is beyond the normal breathable level. it seems govt will only take action if people stated dying to due to respiratory related issues.   


\[Don't tell me what about crackers manufacturing families, Govt should find the alternative jobs for them\]

KookyEye6910

NO, you are just ignorant, not necessarily anti hindu.   
AQI - it is the same even when it is not deepavali.   
CRACKERS - our scriptures have mentionings of crackers, they were mainly used to scare off predators in the jungle and they were too basic.   
ABBAKKA CHOWTA - A queen in karnataka defeated portugese multiple times with explosives made out of gun powder and coconut shells. This is recorded in persia, potugese and in italy.  
Banning petrol/diesel based vehicles completely for EVs can solve this problem through out the year.  
Jailing stuble burners will solve this problem for few months a year.  
Hindus are soft target because idiot hindus arent violent enough in their ptoests compared to others.

MrAmbiG

I haven't burnt fire crackers in last 17-18 Years. I stopped it when I was 8-9 Years old. It was majorly due to the harm it causes to the animals and microorganisms as per Jainism.

Forsaken_Corner_4854

It’s not a rational society and takes rational arguments into identity attacks and racist outburst and whataboutery. Extravagant spending on crackers and sweets. Not to feed the poor or the hungry. Just for clout. You can dress well. Have a good time with family. Order in good food and have a meal together. Visit your friends . Pray to god if you are into that. Donate some money/gifts to the poor who are sleeping hungry. But no. These folks need to do sound pollution and air pollution to feed good about their gods, religion and culture. Before anyone goes rampant ape shit on me i would like to clarify that Im also born into Hindu family. But I’m atheist so it doesn’t matter. Religion gives cover to bad behavior and racist ideologies like no other thing.

FuckleberryFarm

Pretty soon people will say hindus waste oil by burning diyas, we should ban lighting up diyas.

Awara_Zebra

Bhai, you cannot just blame pollution on this one thing. Indians are very good at putting blame. Every country on earth is getting bombed, who is talking about pollution there? 
In US on 4th of July an equal amount of crackers burst but no one talks about pollution from crackers there. Yeh bas india mei hi hone lagta hai. It's not just crackers there are a thousand other things which are polluting our country and sorry to say one of them is your mentality.

vishesh_1987

Every year the same damn questions on the same damn topic. You don’t get it do you? People don’t give a fk about pollution. Hypocrisy runs rampant around here.

firesnake412

Is bursting firecrackers even Hindu? They were invented 100 years ago.

alfredkc100

There are numerous wars going around the world, cars and public transports cause a lot of pollution. A single day won’t make a difference.

Good-girl-12

I think it is important to realise that maybe as Hindus  they feel that they are being robbed of their festivals. Like not being able to celebrate it in the name of pollution.

wittty_cat

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Intrepid_Ground7407

For Ukraine and Russia it is every day Diwali. Liberals would be silent.

Dharani637

Many researchers say it’s not the firecrackers but agriculture in India. Actually vehicles contribute more to pollution in a month than what firecrackers do.
I think ‘ pollution due to firecrackers’ is considered a myth now, according to pure researches and studies. 

 But here we are only talking of air pollution and firecrackers do still cause noise and soil pollution.

Prize_Loss1996

I really wonder why you guys don't have the same sentiment for firecrackers used during wedding seasons, during christmas and new years or the sport ceremonies and concerts.

happylilgui

The problem is, these types of people come out to cry during this time period, you won't see any trend during other religions, I don't like crackers myself but why cry at this time? We should have similar peta events and similar things later, on the side note- it's a personal choice to burn crackers but should be done to minimum

Emotional_Art_7339

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Vegetable_Land7566

Can't even trust these numbers anymore since government has been trying to tamper with them.

Alarming_Echo_4748

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Vote ki taakat keh rahe hain

Adventurous-Age-277

Happy Diwali

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pluto_niwasi_

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Thin_Promise_7877

Interesting titling. The implication being that Diwali caused it, when it was already at hazardous levels before Diwali. There was a spike because of fireworks and then it rapidly fell back to the baseline.

august_senpai

While the fireworks happen only 2-3 days the air stays ‘hazardous’ throughout the winters. October-January. Unfortunately no one wants to address the elephant in the room.

snowandclouds

bellend1991

it is now at 180 -200 level. It's always around this range due to reasons un-related to Diwali.  One of the major reasons is the burning of leftover crop around this time, but people blame the hike on Diwali.

TetrasTetra

callsonreddit

Important-Fold6844

Check the air quality of seattle after the fireworks on the 4th. Any major city that has fireworks and allows them has this issue

xxSparkle_Tittiesxx

People had forgotten that Diwali is about Lakshmi puja and spending time with your family and loved ones. it's a festival of lights not crackers but  kuch log kabhi samajhte nahi hai.

lost_soldier1

In Japan they arrange public fireworks may be we can do the same atleast in cities

Alarming_Emphasis_88

Beautifully said. Celebrating together instead of choking together that’s the kind of change we actually need.

Smooth-Copy9616

Agreed. Seeing everyone defend firecrackers just for the sake of being seen as a true Hindu is disheartening. You can be religious but also oppose things that are wrong but practiced in the name of religion.

Best-Professional-10

Outside of Diwali, we need to regulate construction better, they literally just spew dust and sediments in the air.

When I walk through the city of London ( Financial heart of the city), there's tons of construction going on, but even next to a construction site I never feel short of breath unlike here.

Thermal power plants are unsustainable and need to be phased out with Solar and Nuclear ASAP

Glass-Evidence-7296

No point expecting anything from the community. They treat anything and everything as a threat to their religion. People lack empathy.

Alternative-Talk-795

I’d absolutely support something like this. The air after Diwali really does feel unbreathable, and it’s heartbreaking that joy comes at such a cost. A community fireworks event sounds like a beautiful middle ground-celebrating together, minimizing pollution, and still keeping the spirit alive. We’ve already seen how coordinated pujas and street decorations work then,why not fireworks too?

Admirable-Screen2238

RW influencers have been bombarding me with: you didn't have a problem with Hamas bombing that affected ozone layer. Nor did you protest about environment when Russia Ukraine went to war. But you have a problem with Diwali crackers?

Its IQ like this that got us the government we have

kyunahi

Yes, celebrating differently is the right way to go about it. Instead of thinking of various ways to cancel firecrackers, think of ways to minimise them, with some other festive activity taking its place. Once you find it, it can spread rapidly over a decade or so. Think of how weddings seem to pick up new celebrations, and how festivals like Onam and its food habits are spreading.

Electronic_Sir_7219

Even a place like Mumbai that is surrounded by sea and mountains has unbreathable air right now.

Sufficient-Repeat252

Honestly it isn't practical, even though I agree with your points. Any time pollution is brought up, the point of stubble burning and factories and animal rearing being more polluting is brought up. My suggestion, which I fully intend to take myself, is try to keep your parents/family in cities and neighborhoods where the AQI isn't terrible, and for yourself, try _very_ hard to move to another country

YourAverageBrownDude

The number of crackers one person can buy should be limited

Shoddy-Drawer-6237

people bursting crackers like there is no tomorrow, while the same people complain about how bad the AQI is the whole year

Amulyakumarr

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Kraken_stfu

outside delhi, it seems like i am in the Silent hills game its so dystopian

BIGSMOKE_KINDA_SUS

It's mostly people bursting crackers till 6 am in the morning, causing harm to each other as well as disrupting other people's lives, mostly for the clout by posting idiocities on social media. 

We've always been bursting crackers since we were kids, but it was never so extreme.

foodfuckflee

Every religion in India is going through an identity crisis be it Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christians, Jains, Buddhist etc 

Most of us feel that if we don’t do all this then no one will value our religion. Hence the extreme celebration of all festivals

Smooth-Average6950

Why are you targetting Diwali, you hinduphobe? Never saw you say anything against Bakrid? /s

BihariGuy

Following Diwali, Delhi's air quality reached severe levels due to extensive firecracker use, prompting calls for stricter regulations on firecracker sales.

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