Guest column: Housing solutions are climate solutions | Guest ... - Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Guest column: Housing solutions are climate solutions | Guest Columnists | bozemandailychronicle.com

We have grown up hearing that a good life is one where we own our own home and start our own family… work hard, be rewarded. We have also grown up knowing we face climate catastrophe. Now, as young adults, we face multiple crises: loss of health care coverage, housing scarcity, environmental collapse, mass extinction of species, global conflict.

We are caught between two realities, one where the promise of our childhoods is held by our parents’ and grandparents’ generations and another of complete and ongoing insecurity.

We grieve, for we may never own our homes; we may find ourselves displaced; we may work multiple jobs; we may suffer health repercussions from heat, smoke, drought; we may not be able to raise a family — for fear that we cannot support our children or for fear that they may have to survive even worse times.

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