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As wildfires, floods, drought, and heat become recurrent rather than exceptional, and as everyday life fills with weather alerts, evacuation warnings, and preparedness drills, many people experience a particular kind of distress: the pain of remaining in a place that is still physically present but no longer feels safe, familiar, or trustworthy. This paper examines that experience through the concept of solastalgia\u2014homesickness felt while still at home\u2014and argues that it is not a private mood or a distortion of thinking, but a meaningful disturbance in the very conditions of dwelling. Bringing together phenomenology, emotional geography, and emotion-regulation theory, it shows how a pervasive \u201cculture of emergency\u201d reshapes the way we inhabit space, time, our bodies, and our relationships with others, narrowing the room we feel we have to live and act. 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