Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?

Grayox@lemmy.ml to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 793 points –

300 million lbs of fireworks and 2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.

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Isn't that what parades are for?

But parades are boring

There are other ways to get that. The universe is huge, look up on a quiet night with little light pollution.

People need novelty in life, if it's there every day it's not special.

That's fair, I just think there are ways to get that besides blowing things up once a year, especially given that fireworks produce a lot of unnecessary waste and pollution in the environment.

I just think there are ways to get that besides blowing things up once a year

I mean, I think it's good that people get to safely experience explosions, something most people probably wouldn't experience in their lives otherwise.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily safe, ERs are full of people who almost blew off their hand or other appendages around 4th of July.

Stairs are relatively safe, tens of thousands of people still die from them every year.