#plasterofparisidols

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Hopes of environmental conservation drift by as were immaterial, as India, on top of its underlying bodies deciding to chop forests in Mumbai and Andhra, prepares for its annual pollution parade of immersing huge plaster idols in water bodies, and the religious and the devout parade their excuses too, and that's just those who at least care enough to pretend to care about the environment, while the rest don't even give a shit. The excuses range from "everyone's doing it" to "we're doing it in artificial ponds", as if that water's gonna magically disappear 😂, to "so many have begun using eco-friendly idols", as if the eco friendly ones account for more than 5% of the total quantity of dumping, with the average plaster idols ranging between 15 - 20 feet, the biggest ones well over 50 feet each, whilst the eco-friendly ones average below 5. And many mud idols sport decorations and paints that are poisonous to marine life. This festival is just a bare faced, medieval joke on environmental conservation efforts in the country and just a reflection of the inflated ego of the far right ideology, as they, every year, rally this festival as if it were a show of strength. It is really pitiful and brutish because the idols need not be as tall or as flamboyant, if the purpose of this festival really is remotely spiritual or devotional, where an idol that's a foot tall would do. Such a pity that a generation that is vastly more educated than its previous ones is running into such superstitious traditions, so blindly. ~A.J. . #saveaareyforest #saveaarey #ganeshchaturthi #ganeshchathurthi #ganeshchaturthi2019 #ganeshnimarjan #ganeshnimarjanam #ganeshimmersion #ganeshimmersion2019 #ganeshimmersionisenvironmentaldisaster #stopganeshimmersion #plasterofparisidols #ecofriendlyidols #ecofriendlyganesha #nomininginnallamala #notouraniummining #saynotouraniummining #saynotouraniummininginnallamala #saveamrabadtigerreserve #savetigers #writersofhyderabad #writersofindia #poetsofindia #poetsofhyderabad #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poemsgram #TID #theinkeddreams #hymnofhues (at Dhoolpet) https://www.instagram.com/p/B18wbKHlexD/?igshid=1246hwbty68ew