About the Newsletter
This is Asad Chishti. I’m a journalist who spent over a decade away from the industry.
The word solastalgia is a mash-up of -algia (from the Greek algos, translation: pain) and sōlācium and solus (from the Latin words which mean solace or comfort and desolation).
It refers to a dread, grief, anxiety in regards to the environmental baseline changing. A baseline is a reference, usually with data, of how things are. It can be used to study change.
The climate is a throughline for most of my inquiries as a journalist. I have a sense of what this space might be after years of ruminating on it.
One of my favourite talks about journalism is by Robert Krulwich. It is titled “There are some people who don’t wait.”
I’m trying to embody some of the talk’s spirit in newsletter-form.
This newsletter is a journalistic record of both my work and of my peers. A publishing and more literary track is called eratta (subscribe).
