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Billie Eilish on how she's making touring less terrible for the planet
(www.nationalgeographic.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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Bonfires apparently, at least in parts of Germany.
I don't see anything significant suggesting they're being discontinued. It's a relatively small amount of wood mass being burned on one day a year.
Anything like Sankthans (Midsommer) in Norway?
What about all of the other German celebrations where they burn a relatively small amount of wood mass?
Are there that many? How much wood are we talking per person per year?
Some of the articles I saw suggested that it was (at least historically) trimmings from hedgerows, which are too thin/green/wet to be useful for much else.
In a lot of places farmers burn piles of unwanted vegetation anyway.
I was mostly assuming based on my own experience, as a human. Humans love gathering around large fires. As you asked let's dive into it.
Here is a bit list of festivals in Germany. This will be my starting place for most of it.
Easter - already discussed too much.
Biikebrennen (mostly a regional thing.)
If one includes fireworks... Well, check out the list of festivals above and word search. There are many.
The Tollwood Winterfestival has fire acts (in the photos at the bottom of the page). While these are very small fires, they look pretty cool.
At this point I asked an AI and it listed three additional. Yes it is shameful that I got impatient. Feel free to stop reading. I did my own reason from the names and provided the links.
Walpurgisnacht, Johannisnacht (Wikipedia does not mention fires, but here are photos from "More Than Beer and Schnitzel.com" ), and Martinsfeuer link goes to a random youtube video with a fire (There were enough bonfire related images in my search for Martinsfeuer that either that word means "bonfire" or there are a number of bonfires during that festival).
Yeah but it is culturally wrong to still burn stuff just for the sake of it. Like a stone age ritual. Like killing a kitten when a baby is born. We need to stop burning things. In the light of what we know, it lacks respect for life and our Earth.
Its okay to have a bonfire. It is nothing like killing a kitten.
It is killing future life. As is needlessly driving a car or flying.