Ahh Those Fireworks #18
- Vivi & António
- Dec 22, 2025
- 1 min read
As New Year's Eve is getting closer, at the stroke of midnight, skies around the world will light up with fireworks, marking the beginning of another year with a tradition that many hold dear. Bursts of colour and thunderous booms symbolise hope, joy, and celebration.
It's an almost irresistible spectacle, right? It's a tradition after all...
But imagine being a dog, or a stork in a nest in a city, or a wild animal in a natural habitat (let's say Ria Formosa in the Algarve, for example).
While fireworks captivate our senses, they also release harmful pollutants into the air, contributing to smog, noise pollution, and toxic chemical residues that settle on the ground and in water bodies. Wildlife is startled, pets are in fear, and countless tons of waste are left to litter the earth.
To us, it may seem that the impact ends after those 5 or 10 minutes, but in reality, its effect on the environment has only just begun. Like everything else, those chemicals have to go somewhere. So doesn't all this affect us, humans, too? And isn't it high time to reflect on traditions?
Nowadays, more and more towns and cities have their own fireworks show. So, trying to put an end to it would be too much to ask, but considering environmentally friendly solutions (without chemicals) or animal-friendly and noise-pollution-friendly (without noise) seems like a viable solution.
We have more knowledge than before; let's make it work for us and not against us.
You've been cool'd!
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