First the good news: I’ve discovered my new favorite blog (besides this one, of course), at Grist.org: http://gristmill.grist.org.

The bad new (hard to call it good news) is that published there I found the best commentary yet written on climate change, Beyond the point of no return, written by Ross Gelbspan. Ross is a journalist whose resume includes 30 years at publications like the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.

Ross runs down what I’ve started overhearing through the shared walls of our culture but have been trying to block out because it’s too awful to eavesdrop on: that whether or not humans were the only cause, or the primary cause, of global warming, and regardless of what our governments might agree to in the next 50 years, radical climate change is now unstoppable.

The questions that now race towards each of us like a concrete wall are: what will you and I do? And next: who else are you and I responsible to? What will we do for our loved ones, our children, our families, our history, our culture, our nation, our people (the human race) — what do you and I do now out of respect, obligation, and affection for them?

Most of us are prepared for anything but this. But we can change…. Here’s to living in interesting times.