[Intro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Outro]
Who’s to blame
(From losing the game)
The need for greed
(To “succeed”)
While the children bleed
(It’s a shame)
… in deed
(Indeed)
ABOUT THE SONG
“Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis may be uncomfortable. Yet acknowledging that responsibility may be the first step toward restoring both ecological stability and psychological resilience.”
Widespread Distress and Solastalgia
A defining feature of this crisis is the phenomenon of solastalgia — often described as “homesickness while still at home.”
Unlike eco-anxiety, which is anticipatory fear about future environmental collapse, solastalgia arises when one’s immediate home environment is visibly degraded. It is the distress of watching familiar landscapes burn, flood, dry, or decay.
Approximately 50% of mental health burden appears to stem from direct trauma exposure. The remaining burden relates to agency — or lack thereof.
Children and adolescents possess the cognitive capacity to understand the existential dimensions of climate destabilization. Their distress is amplified not by ignorance, but by insight. What compounds the trauma is the recognition that decision-making power rests largely with adults whose responses are often perceived as insufficient, dismissive, or delayed.
The psychological strain thus reflects both trauma and moral injury.
Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis is essential for our children.
from —
- Youth Mental and Physical Health in the Era of Accelerating Climate Extremes — Brouse (February 2026)
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
From the album “North Flew South“