Green Diwali Happy Diwali
Diwali is the festival of
lights that brings good luck, happiness and prosperity to all. The lighted
diyas not only illuminate the environment but also has to shack the darkness of
poverty and ignorance. But the important question is how far are we able to
understand and appreciate the real fact that we are moving away from the real
spirit of the fiesta of light? The festival steadily but definitely is becoming
one of the major problem for the environment due to the carelessness of the
people all around.
Crackers contain toxic
compounds like Copper and Cadmium and due to change in the weather these particles
/ pollution mixes with fog and becomes smog causing asthma attacks, bronchitis,
symptoms of allergic rhnitis including running nose and headaches. Smog worsens
the situation by suspending the toxic particles in the air for longer time.
It’s high time that we people
should recognize the problem and should build a roadway by which we can make a
healthy and balanced environment.
This year, the diwali got some
extra sweet with the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court, an initiative to
keep the city’s ever increasing pollution problem in control.
After successful initiatives
such as water-free Holi and Eco-friendly Gansesh Chaturthi, majority is going
for Green Diwali. This Green Diwali is way to celebrate the festival with
minimum consequences to the environment. With the bursting of loud
firecrackers, the pollution in the country rises to the dangerous level causing
discomfort to the elderly people, children and pets. More number of asthma
cases gets reported with this increase in the pollution.Let’s come together and a do a
bit for the society on this diwali. It’s our basic and most important
faithfulness to understand the importance and essence of the traditional diwali
celebration.
Let’s take some steps ahead to
make this diwali an eco-friendly one:
Use locally made, earthenware Diyas for decoration:
Eschew the cheap plastic
lights for home decoration and go for the artisan handmade earthen ware and
diyas for the decoration. This will not only help the environment but will also
help the poor artisan families.
Shun burning the fire crackers:
We all get mesmerized and
entertained by the lights of the crackers. But the sad fact is that we don’t
pay any attention towards the bad effect of the loud noise and pollution on the
environment. Due to bursting of crackers huge quantity of toxic gases release
in the atmosphere, which is one of the major health concerns for everyone in
the world. Birds and animals suffer the most due to the high level of noise
generated.
Majority of teenage children
are involved in the making of firecrackers. We roughly look over the fact that
these young children are exposed to these toxic substances, which put their
life and health in great danger.
Noise pollution due to the use of fire crackers should be avoided:
There is no logic in burning
those firecrackers which produces more than 65 decibels of noise. Even the law
has banned the burning of noisy crackers but it seems that many of us are not
interested in following these rules and regulations. Various hazardous health
problems are caused by the burning of noisy firecrackers.
Some of them are listed below:
Problem in hearing ability
High blood pressure
High number of people getting
heart attacks
Sleeping disorders
Provisional or even eternal
deafness
Go for organic rangoli:
Circumvent the use of chemical based rangoli
colors. Make maximum use natural colors
and dyes like rice flour, turmeric power, kumkum, lime, petal, coal and leaves
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