CLIMATE CASTAWAY
As one of only two guests on uninhabited Chumbe Island, off Zanzibar’s west coast, with nothing but a mosquito net separating me from the tropical outdoors, this was as close as I’ve been to voluntary island desertion. As night fell, it dawned on me that this state-of-the-art eco-bungalow, with close-to-zero impact on the environment, also meant zero separation from the island’s creatures and elements.
Suddenly the urban dweller in me was
