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"But what about the environment?"
Facebook has a 10 times worse carbon footprint than firecrackers

And the firecracker carbon footprint is insignificant to total emissions https://twitter.com/Vedic_Revival/status/1322822904388747266
IIT Kanpur study on pollutants in Delhi lists out the major causes of pollution as below:

crackers don't feature in that, pollution is by other sources that the govt won't act upon https://twitter.com/Vedic_Revival/status/1322344698766348292
AQI on the day after Diwali for the last many years has been below what the AQI is right now. Crackers are not the problem but govts don't want to deal with the real causes. https://twitter.com/Vedic_Revival/status/1323401343382466560
No clear link between spread of COVID and pollution. USA burst more crackers on 4th july, 2020 than 2019 with no dramatic increase in spread after that. https://twitter.com/Vedic_Revival/status/1322338704967536646
ICMR scientists developed "green crackers" on the instructions of SC which Harshvardhan claimed pollute 50% less

No need to ban them if this is true
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