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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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.