Editor,
I enjoy living in my sunny, bright, 9 ½ foot by 12 foot home — 114 square feet — with six windows. Sunshine warms my home on many winter days. My home is a room in the house of a friend.
I have no right to a much larger home while many millions worldwide have no home.
The bigger the house, the more materials were used to build it and the more stuff bought to fill it.
The bigger the house, usually the more energy consumed to heat or cool it — causing more poisoned air and global climate chaos.
The bigger the house, the more repairs to do and the more time spent cleaning it.
The bigger the house, the more destruction to our environment and the more unfairness to our sisters and brothers who have no decent shelter.
If I were given the most luxurious mansion in this city, I would not keep it. I would be ashamed to live in it.
Don Schrader
UNM community member
