We asked each contributor to Adi’s eighth issue to select a song that resonates with their piece. The following is a sequence of songs layered with ecological metaphors and punctuated with silence, each insisting on the inextricability of humans and nature. Listen as you make your way through Issue 8: UNPEOPLED TERRAIN.
A Soundtrack To Issue 8
‹Also in this Issue›
asinnajaq: Loops of Time
The Inuk artist on the fullness of the Arctic, ancestral ingenuity, and the decisions that drive ecological loss.
Tamara Toles O’Laughlin: The Climate Catastrophe Should Be Paid For By The People Who Sponsored It
The environmentalist on dirty money, reparations, and the urgency of global solidarity.
The Lamentations of a Veteran of the Sand Wars
When I was born, at the beginning of the 22nd century, the world was choking under the weight of devastating disasters. It took the climate wars to free us—from some problems, at least.
A Soundtrack To Issue 8
Across this issue, there is an emphasis on silence, not as absence of life but richness of survival.