Every year the festival of lights fills
our life with darkness!!
Air pollution more than
doubles and big cities like Delhi become gas chambers.
Crackers also release heavy metals among other toxic
substances.
Noise levels cross
deafening limits.
Children are the biggest victims as their defence
mechanisms are not fully developed to withstand the
increased intensity of pollution. Others also suffer
from respiratory disorders
like asthma and even heart attacks.
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Spreading
awareness about harms of crackers
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Bursting of crackers is now a means of "showing off
" and is another opportunity to display
ones wealth. With so many people living in poverty,
burning money on crackers is a shame.
The silent sufferers: Trees are
coated with smoke which block their photosynthetic process. Birds
and animal have to cope with loud blasts and toxic
smoke leading to their disappearance from our city.
Losing so much for so little? Doesn't make sense.
Celebrating Diwali with crackers is not our tradition! When Lord
Rama returned to Ayodha, there were no fire crackers to greet
him. Diwali is a festival of lights and was never a festival of
crackers and smoke.
How else
can we celebrate Eco-Deepawali :
Eco
Visarjan : Religiously only metal, stone or unbaked clay
idols are worshipped. Metal or stone idols can be worshipped
every year, while unbaked clay idols, painted with only
natural colours will not pollute water when immersed.
Rangoli: Rangoli earlier was made with
flour to provide food for ants and not with toxic colours. You
can also make Rangoli with natural ingredients like wheat or
rice flour or mix with haldi, mehendi and sindur for colour.
Gifts: Give gifts and not packaging
material !! The gifts in the market these days have more of
plastic and other material packaging and less of contents.
Avoid them. Also wrap the gifts in handmade / brown / news
paper and not glitter paper which is not recyclable.
Make Deepawali not just happy for us but
also for surroundings.
CLEAN-India has been successfully campaigning for celebrating
ECO-DEEPAWALI through plays and discussions.
We invite all to join us in our campaign.
Wishing You A Happy
and Smokeless Diwali
with Lights, Flowers, Sweets, Friends and Joy!
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