Thread by @VarierSangitha

🚩 Things more polluting than Diwali fireworks:
From the wall of Shri Pankaj Saxena :

1. The food that you eat – yes, the industrial farming that has become the norm in Punjab and Haryana is more polluting than fireworks.

2. The meat that you eat – Meat eating is the greatest threat to global warming and biggest reason of global pollution. Abandoning beef itself can save the planet.

3. The car that you drive – Your car exhausts more fume every day than all the fireworks you can light on Diwali.

4. The AC that you use – Even on for a few hours a day it consumes more electricity which burns more fossil fuel in one way or the other than you can ever spend on a Diwali occasion.

5. The geyser, oven, heater and toaster that you use.

6. The Bakrid that you celebrate – for more pollution is created in rearing slaughter animals for many years before they are finally butchered on Bakrid.
7. The XMas that you celebrate – for a humungous amount of trees are cut and environment is polluted for celebrating Xmas.

8. The New Year that you celebrate – the sheer waste of resources that is done on this day is stupendously higher than Diwali.

9. The colourful plastic stool that you use in your bathroom – the 7 different factories that it took to make that stool with artificial colors

9. and chemicals and all the transport that it took for that stool to reach from a Chinese factory to your bathroom makes it far more polluting than Diwali firecrackers.

10. The mobile that you use – for the frequency with which we discard them makes them a bio-hazard.

11. The TV set that you use – for we get bored of them, throw them away and buy new ones.

12. The refrigerator that you use – for they have to be dumped once you are done with it in four or five years at best and they remain there for hundreds of years.

13. The computer that you use to write or read these posts – for the same reason as mobiles.

14. The home-delivery that you get from amazon – all the transportation and the fuel that goes into it, all the packaging and the trees that need to be cut.

15. The BigBasket that you use – all the plastic wrapped around every single capsicum and tomato is more polluting than Diwali firecrackers.

16. The fruits that you eat – Avocadoes aren’t grown in your city or village. It has to be shipped across seven seas.

17. The flight that you take – Flying is an incredibly costly way to travel, environmentally speaking.

18. The road trip that you take – Taking a car to the next city or even to your work is more polluting than Diwali fireworks.

19.Jeans that you wear – More plastic goes into your ‘clothes’ than you have ever thought.Jeans is almost half plastic&more polluting than fireworks.
20. Flowers that you send to your beloved – To maintain a flower shop&send those flowers in truck is more polluting than fireworks

21. The honeymoon trip to Bali – The honeymoon trip to Diwali with ‘hubby’ that you take is far far far more polluting than any fireworks ever can be.

22. The birthday bash you threw last month – Parties consume and waste more resources than can ever be used in firecrackers.

23. The beers that you are used to have every evening – Beer cans and bottles create more waste than any Diwali firecrackers can.
24. The restaurants that you go to every weekend – a ‘candle-light’ ‘romantic’ dinner is heavier on the environment than any Diwali fireworks.

The sheer amount of electricity, fuel and use and throw items that a restaurant uses is huge.

25. The democracy that you are used to – Maintaining democracy, holding elections, sustaining democratic institutions is far more polluting than any Diwali firecracker can be.

But we still do all of these things, for we think that these things are non-negotiable. That they are our rights. And yet we hammer at Diwali and all other Hindu festivals🚩

What is wrong with our planet is our entire lifestyle. To go hammer and tongs after Hindu festivals and Hindu festivals only is nothing but sheer naked racism. To keep quiet in this onslaught is nothing but quiet acceptance of ethnocide which will ultimately lead to genocide 🚩

🚩Oppose we do. And rise we shall. All enemies of dharma shall stand defeated at last. But we need to do our part. We need to resist.
Credits: Pankaj Saxena 🚩
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