Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A local, professional display uses about 35kg of gunpowder (NEQ). When combusted this will produce about 17kg of CO2. To put this in context, most new petrol engines will produce about 190gm of CO2 per mile.
Therefore you would need to travel 88 miles to emit the equivalent amount of CO2 of your typical fireworks display. If you consider the a round trip distance for the entire audience to watch a single fireworks display, gunpowder is a fraction of the CO2 footprint.
Nice.
Now do the calculation that includes all of the direct suffering to humans, pets, and wild life, and then quantify all of the solid and liqueous waste associated with generation, transportation, and utilization, the latter including all of the waste associated with spectators attending the phenomenon.
What I think we’ll all discover is that private transportation and the lack of robust recycling infrastructure and waste recovery the world over sucks. We should all do something about it.
Reddit forces me to use their app and Lemmy forces me to recognize the bad in everything. The internet is basically trash now.
This guy maths
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The problem is pollution, not GHG emissions. Particles, NOx, Plastic debris…
On top of that your local fauna is not at all prepared for the nosie and light pollution.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Again, probably more particles, NOx, Plastic debris etc. from the audience.
Any football game with a flyover is multiple times more polluting.
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 5 months ago
i am quite certain that people do not emit particles or NOx like this. In particular nobody is just exhaling heavy metals.
bbc.com/…/20240703-how-4-july-fireworks-pollute-t…
Here is a map for New Years in Germany with a nice slider. Particle concentration increases up to 1000x the base-value of that day (which already includes people setting off fireworks earlier)
gis.uba.de/website/silvester/
Unless it is normal for people at football games to ignite pyrotechniques, or they all smoke 5 packs of cigarettes each during the game, there is nothing that would make a comparable pollution.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I think he’s talking about everyone driving to the game and idling in the parking lot in addition to the jets
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Car tyres, naked flames, trash, waste disposal.
Yeah. I can’t shoehorn heavy metals into this scenario. Soda cans?