I'm not cycling today. Here in the rural Netherlands, thanks to the idiots who lit Easter fires last night, we have worse air quality today than Los Angeles. There's visible smog in the air. I.e. This is unsuitable air for healthy exercise unless you like the idea of an increased chance of many illnesses.
It's a very sad thing that we have several of these air pollution "holidays" each year (new years eve fireworks being one of the other big problems), and that people hang on to all of them as "tradition". Some people will be setting fire to stuff this evening instead. I'm hoping that there won't be such bad air tomorrow
#paasvuren #easterfire #airpollution #AirPollutionKills #smog #luchtvervuiling
And I'm not cycling today either. I live in the grey circle where air quality is already dangerous and the wind is from SSE where stretching for more than a hundred km is even worse. All that bad air has to pass us before this will get better.
Creating lots of dangerous air pollution which ruins other people's Easter holiday, and doing that *on purpose* to celebrate the exact same holiday, is a remarkably antisocial hobby.
#paasvuur #paasvuren #Easter #easterfire #airpollution #luchtkwaliteit
@hembrow A while back I found an online feed of NL emergency service pager callouts, and (not knowing of the bonfire traditions) genuinely thought there had been some riot/civil conflict over NYE, due to the amount of random out of control fires the Brandweer seemed to be dealing with...
@vfrmedia Yes it's absolutely absurd how many fireworks are set off here on NYE. Complete ruins the occasion, unfortunately. It ends up being dominated by the least reasonable people in the country, just like Easter.
@hembrow they way these are done seems as much as territory claiming/area denial/culture war tactics (reminds me of the sectarian bonfires in Northern Ireland)