Manipur, June 27 -- The UN backed global save the environment campaign slogan is "Your Planet Needs You: Unite to Combat Climate Change". It is both an appeal to every one of our consciences as well as an alert that the global ecology is at a critical juncture and that it is urgently essential for all of us to apply our minds and hearts to the issue. It is after all a matter of life and death. All the same, it is still not a simple matter to comprehend the entirety of the issue or to gauge the gravity of the situation at hand, especially for those of us tucked up and secluded in a mountain province like Manipur. The tendency is to believe the problem is remote and not one of our making or immediate concern. Wrong, and in a distant way, righ...