Petitions are largely useless and do little but make the starter and/or signatories feel good about themselves.
As an example, take the
Revoke Article 50 for Brexit petition, which amassed over six million signatures. It came to naught. This will too.
I am not a naysayer by nature, but I am aware that petitions do very little apart from being a good example of
slacktivism, i.e. an act which aims to solve or champion a difficult or effortful cause with very little work on the part of the campaigners.