This year’s scarcity of fireworks and skyrocketing prices present the perfect opportunity for cities to try out cool laser light shows, which are a safer, more eco-friendly, and more humane way to celebrate.

With all the recent talk about killing and eating cicadas—here’s another idea: Don’t. If cicadas can wait underground for 17 years just to enjoy one month of life, can’t we be evolved enough to let them have it?