Doom and Bloom: The Growing Millennial Obsession with Houseplants

Young adults are turning into plant parents as a manifestation of deep mourning over the planet they are inheriting

Erin Quinlan
Elemental
Published in
7 min readOct 22, 2019

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TThe droughts were so bad that Western Australia’s vast Wheatbelt region was blowing away. This wasn’t a fluke; it was the new norm. By 2014, the area’s winter…

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