Singapore

There are lots of municipal sculptures all over downtown Singapore. I liked this one of boys jumping into the river. A curious thing you can't help noticing here is that Singapore has no farmland. It has apartment blocks, shopping malls, large roads, parks and rain forest but no fields, no cows, no sheep, no rice paddies, no market gardens. No-one grows vegetables in their gardens. Most people live in apartments anyway and the millionaires who do have gardens wouldn't be interested in growing vegetables. So when you go in the supermarket you notice that the milk is from Australia. The "freshly squeezed" orange juice is from Florida USA and with no direct flight from Florida we are talking serious carbon damage here. Potatoes from Oregon. Carrots USA and New Zealand. Apples from South Africa. Mangoes from Thailand. The only things I saw that were actually grown in Singapore was some herbs and some small lettuces. So there must be a greenhouse somewhere but I didn't spot it. Climate change is no secret anymore. The facts are there and it's well understood. The bronze boys jumping into the river will never hit the water and they won't ever grow up to witness what the climate will be like in 20, 30, 50 or 100 years time. The lovely little suspension bridge, by the way, was manufactured in and shipped out from Glasgow!!!