I hate to say it, but I might be living at the wrong latitude—or at least, my kids certainly are. Reams of climate change reports—and a quick look at the news showing submerged tropical islands—attest to how sea levels are rising fastest at the equator … and we live in the equatorial city-state of Singapore.Of course, the good people of the tropics aren’t to be blamed for climate change: Their emissions have historically been much lower than the gas-guzzling, winter-heating, highrise-building and city-sprawling West.

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