Who doesn’t love a little shade on the street? A cool parking spot for the car? A bit of garden? But is disrupting traffic, inconveniencing businesses and shoppers, spending millions of baht to create a “green city” actually worth the disruption, inconvenience and cost? In a word, yes. When the TV experts talk about climate change, they talk about greenhouse gas-belching factories and methane spewing waste dumps. Have you ever heard anyone talk about Bangkok or Chiang Mai — the city itself — as a cause of climate change? Not the traffic, not the factories, not the garbage. Just the buildings t…

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