Fabulous as stuffing and cornucopias are, it's understandably tough for an environmentalist to conjure a grateful spirit these days. Thanksgiving has its roots in bountiful harvests—but thanks to widespread flooding, month after month of record-breaking global temperatures, fire-scorched vineyard fields, and other hallmarks of climate change, 2019 has been a doozy for agriculture. This may just be the year that no amount of gravy will make up for your uncle's gripes about "the climate hoax." We get it: Listening to some cousin wax philosophical about how Greta Thunberg should be back home at school won’t leave us brimming with thanks for the long, family-gathering-studded holiday season, either. Here are some tried, true, adorable and/or delicious means of pivoting from dead-end conversations. | 
