Oh, good grief.
Does anyone believe there is a necessity to "raise awareness" (and I never contribute to any cause whose mandate is to raise awareness) of something that has been hammered into our skulls for the past two decades? There are a lot of people who don't believe, not because they are not environmentally "woke" but because they look at the mathematical models for what is happening to the climate and find there are a lot of holes in what we understand. This is sort of like hippies being against "the man" without any understanding of business or economics. A student strike will not do anything at all when there is no understanding of the correct path to choose.
To understand things, you need a sense of history and a sense of chemistry.
HISTORY
A thousand years ago, the Vikings settled Greenland and set up a society much like that in Norway at the time. This included growing crops of rye. Rye doesn't grow there now because it is too cold and only some experimental crops are being started there now. Between then and now, we had the Little Ice Age, from 1300AD when Viking society in Greenland died out to 1850 AD. During the time of lowest temperatures, the carbon dioxide level was at 285 ppm and plant leaves from that era had far more stomata (the breathing holes in leaves) than plants today because they were in dire distress. The current level is about 410 ppm and rising by about 5 ppm per year. The concentration for supposedly stable temperature is 350 ppm. But in the time of the dinosaurs, the number was 1100 ppm and the temperature was about 5C higher than it is now, but it was stable and the plants loved it - enough that the oxygen concentration in the world was about 30%. The "hockey stick" temperature graph that Al Gore threatened us with has been debunked. Every so often, we get volcanoes such as Soufriere and Pinatubo that reduce our temperatures and when the Yellowstone volcano blows, we are going to be happy for every bit of carbon dioxide we exhaled.
There is also a demand problem - cutting down trees such as the deforestation of the Amazon is reducing the ability to absorb carbon dioxide and one area where I agree with
@DeadlyDuo is the use of the oceans as garbage dumps is decreasing the ability of single-celled plants to supply oxygen and remove carbon dioxide. The most reckless act ever on this planet was the shipment of defoliants from the US to Viet Nam - if one ship had gone down and lost its contents, the oxygen level in the world would have plummeted from 21% to 16%, all for a war that had no justification.
CHEMISTRY
Photosynthesis is one of the most endothermic (heat absorbing) reactions in all of chemistry. Six molecules of carbon dioxide plus five molecules of water plus 671,000 calories per mole creates a molecule of starch and six molecules of oxygen. A typical explosive would release 250,000 calories per mole. Photosynthesis is a natural refrigerator. When trees are cleared as they are in the Amazon, new subdivision housing and cities, the temperature will naturally rise.
Sorry, but one girl skipping school to raise awareness of something everyone has been exposed to is not worth much. A better atmospheric model would be worth something. Actual science could be taught - but not to someone who is skipping school. And actual science is the only thing that will get people to understand the problem - running around like Chicken Little saying, "the sky is falling" is not going to convince anyone of anything, nor does it lead to appropriate policies.
