'Our house is burning': student climate protesters urge their universities to go carbon neutral

As thousands of Generation Z activists head back to college, they're pressuring universities to declare a climate emergency, cut emissions and divest from fossil fuels

As West coast wildfires color the skies dystopian red and orange and an aggressive hurricane season batters the US Gulf coast, college students are demanding their schools take bold action to address the climate crisis.

Caitlyn Daas is among them. The senior at Appalachian State University and organizer with the Appalachian Climate Action Collaborative (ClimACT) stands on the frontlines of her school's grassroots push to go climate neutral", part of a years-long, national movement that has inspired hundreds of institutional commitments to reduce academia's carbon footprint.