Good thing you're not the single person who became aware of the climate strike! I suspect many of the politicians who can actually influence things also remember the massive school strikes. Many protests are designed to raise awareness in addition to the 'stretch goal' of achieving direct results - so demonstrating that hundreds of thousands of school kids are this focused on the topic is a pretty good outcome even if some of the random people who were vaguely aware of the strikes can't do anything to help their demands. Said another way, it's not about you.

> I assume this is parody, but just in case it's not: I am not someone who can do something about this, other than what I'm already doing.

Maybe other people aren't already doing those things. Maybe some people saw these kids and thought, "You know, those kids are right. I should do something about that."

What in the world could possibly be negative about school kids walking out of school in protest for two or three days? The 'tone policing' of other people's direct action is so tiresome.