Q&A for How to Spread Awareness About Climate Change

Look for things that you normally throw away that you can reuse, compost, or recycle.

It is extincting many animal species. It is bringing irregular change in climate. The period that we are experiencing now is the biggest Carbon Dioxide spake in recorded history of humans.

Distribute pamphlets in your community, post about it on social media, attend and host meetups dedicated to the subject and organize activities in your area that focus on climate change.

Rising and warming oceans and intensifying weather. See windows2universe.org/earth/climate/cli_effects.

It sounds like you've made a very good start! Keep doing what you're doing. Also, try going vegan or vegetarian.

Advertise the gathering with signs, posters, an ad in the local paper or online on a community billboard.

Get involved with local climate-change activist groups and make time to socialise with people who are also concerned about climate change so that you feel you are not alone. Make changes in your daily life (catching public transport, limiting waste) and this will help you feel more empowered. Set yourself goals in all aspects of your life and take time to rest. If you look after yourself, you'll be empowered to look after this planet.

Absolutely! That is a great way to start helping the earth! As a 10th grader, you have a bunch of opportunities that younger people might not.

If you are an introvert, try things like posters or other small things that don't require so much socializing. If you are an extrovert, try joining protests or rallies, join a club and just get out there.

You may consider putting up posters with your picture and hard work on them, with a caption declaring that children should not be forced to deal with the irresponsible choices of others in their community.

Simple! Alert people, make signs, and organize a date. On that day, walk out of school- or don't come at all- and stand at your town hall or city hall- or even your Parliament (or equivalent, just a government building)- with your signs.

Some places will get extreme drought and heatwave; others will flood. Animals such as polar bears and penguins will die out and eventually Earth will get so hot that many places will be unpleasant to live in without adaptation techniques. Global costs will be in the trillions, and many countries will go broke.

That's tough. Get friends involved, pick up litter at your school, and put up posters at your school (ask your teacher or principal first, though!). But here's the thing: also get your parents involved. They will most likely be super supportive. Keep on helping Mother Earth!

First ask your parents because you might need some permission for some things you need to do. Start researching a lot on trustworthy sites, to get good info about climate change. Do research on how climate change happens so you can explain it clearly to others. Start getting some of your friends and family involved too. Then you can either start your own things like websites or protests around your hometown or city. Ask your principal if you can start a club. Or, maybe join an existing one. Use your talents to spread awareness too, like through art, poetry, stories or dance.

Get involved with local climate change activist groups in your community and make time to socialise with people who are also concerned about climate change so that you feel you are not isolated. Make sure to make change in your daily life (catching public transport, limiting waste) and this will help you feel more empowered. Set yourself goals in all aspects of your life and take time to rest - if you look after yourself, you'll be empowered to look after this planet.

There will be stronger and more frequent natural disasters, clean air and water will be harder to get, and the weather will become more unpredictable.

Start with actions you can do, like taking the bus instead of driving, turning off lights and heating when you don't need them. Inspire others to follow your lead, within your family and friends. However, this is such a huge issue, so much bigger than us individuals alone, that getting involved in pressuring government and industry to change their ways is now really important, so join protests (even if all you do is sign petitions or support people who are attending marches), send letters to your representatives, learn all you can about climate science so you can explain it to people who don't understand what is happening, write about it in forums and online, join groups that are actively doing things to use renewable energy, reduce waste, consume less, etc. The time for sitting back has ended.