It is almost Diwali, and we can already hear crackers bursting in our neighbourhoods. Needless to say, the conversation around the harm fireworks and crackers bring to the environment feels redundant because people are too thick-headed to understand the consequences. Instead, they attack those who try to educate them and accuse them of 'going against their culture'. Bursting crackers is not in anyone's culture.
A festival can be celebrated without adding to the noise and air pollution. However, despite governments banning crackers, people still manage to buy them from illegal sources and ruin the beauty of the festival.
To add fuel to the fire, spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said that we should not be concerned about air pollution and that it should not be the reason why children cannot burst crackers. So, basically, he said that we should forget about the well-being of the children and ourselves, and let them participate in an activity that brings only harm. People have been getting offended at this for a while now but they should really stop and understand why the use of crackers should be stopped. Taking to Twitter, he suggested an alternative to the people who are concerned about air pollution. Have a look!
In a video, which he posted on Twitter, Sadhguru said: "I have not lit a cracker in quite a few years. But when I was a child, how much it meant... from the month of September, we'll be dreaming of crackers and after Diwali is over, the next one-two months, we will save the crackers and keep on doing them every day."