I am midway up a tropical hillside, up to my neck at the far edge of my private infinity pool and staring out into the Andaman Sea. A light breeze rises up to me over the palm trees below, and the only other sign of humanity I see from this angle are a couple of red-tiled villa rooftops farther below me. An island lies a mile offshore, and beyond it the late afternoon sun is heading for the horizon as I wait in anticipation for its final show for the day. But everything surrounding my private villa is glowing green. I hear nothing but birds and the rising and falling buzz of cicadas….