8/3/2019 Macho of Eco Friendly Diwali
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Macho (Eco) Friendly diwali
Every year as the diwali
approaches some social
groups starts preaching
the bad effects of burning
crackers , bad impact on
the nocternal birds
(though I've never seen
any bird hit by fireworks
ever ) etc. and then
declares for an ecofriendly diwali. They
urges people not to burn
crackers & fire works .
But this sounds very
hollow and hypocritic .
The same group when go to the IPL final matches or see the
opening of Beijing olymic, or
the wedding of princes Harry they just glued their eyes to the
majestic display of fireworks
in the sky and exclaims the momentous joys.
They just forget that the same fire works create enormous amount
of SOx and NOx in the
air besides CO2 and other harmful metal oxide gases.
But the fact that there are far more greater sources of air
pollution than that of this fewoccassional display of fire
works.
Take the number of cars everyday ply on the Mumbai roads. Just
imagine all these people
go to office / works in mass transit system. No private car plys
on the Mumbai roads. I
know this is not possible but I also know these powerful people
will never travel on public
transport system because they have big cars to show their might.
Some of these people also
show their concern on Diwali air pollution due to burning of
crackers & fire works.
In 2008-09 alone we imported RS: 294870 crores of oil , a
majority portion goes to run the
big private cars. Because they have money so they have licence
to pollute.
The other index of pollution is the consumption of electricity.
The more electricity one
consumes the more pollution he creates. Average Indian consumes
825 units of electricity
per year and the average big indian consumes 100 times more than
that. For each unit of
electricity atleast 750 grams coal is burnt. The more
electricity one consumes means
indirectly the more coal he is burning and sending more harmful
gases into the air (nothing
less than fire works only aparently not visible).
So why so much fuss about Diwali ? Because this is the platform
whereform one can make
a visible impact in the minds of sophisticated Indians. The
smoke of crackers & fireworksare more visible than the smoke
& gases created by the private cars and boilers. Diwali is
short lived so one can easily preach on it.
