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Do they have any room for a fruit tree or 10? You can get some good deals now on bare root fruit trees - because nurseries want to get a decent amount of their sapplings accounted for. The best times to buy are in the preseason, and the afterseason clearances. A nice apple/pear/peach tree, 2-3 cherry bushes, 5-10 raspberry canes, and some bulb flowers, maybe some strawberries and they have a nice little food forest guild that would fit in a 8 x 8 foot corner in their backyard, and give them a thousand bucks of food per year. The raspberries would produce this next summer. This can all be planted in an afternoon.

2000 bags of shredded leaves, dumped all over their lawn. Go with 50 trees and kickstart a full blown food forest for next spring!

A small seed starting kit is timed nicely for Christmas. Some LED grow lights, a little rack system with a greenhouse tarp, maybe some seed starting trays, etc.

Black Friday Sales on grow lights

Indoor Greenhouse

The gifts themselves aren't carbon negative, but them growing some of their own food will offset the massive carbon footprint of the industrialized food system.

What about indoor mushroom grow kits. Here are some vendors:

•Back to the Roots (Oakland, CA)

•Cascadia Mushrooms (Bellingham, WA)

•Far West Fungi (San Francisco, CA)

•Field & Forest Products (Peshtigo, WI)

• Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms (UK)

• Grow Mushrooms Canada (British Columbia, Canada)

• MycoTerra Farm (Westhampton, MA)

• MycoUprrhizal (Olympia, WA)

•Provisions Mushroom Farm: find them at the Olympia, WA Farmer's Market!

•SmugTown Mushrooms (Rochester, NY)

• Sno Valley Mushrooms (King County, WA)

Same thing, these may not be carbon negative by themselves, but they will make a LOT of mushrooms (if they like eating mushrooms), and can be really fun. Every mushroom they grow in their basement is a batch of mushrooms that didn't travel 1000 miles, with associated packaging, processing, etc carbon footprints.

Climate denialism is inextricably linked to the discursive dynamics of varying forms of conservatism (American libertarianism, nativism, anti-globalism, so on) and more broadly, capitalism. Though the wealthiest of the world could support climate change policies and initiatives and still remain grotesquely rich, we have clear evidence that capitalism has repeatedly and systematically discouraged and failed to incentivize action. Then consider that the wealthiest individuals in Western society and elsewhere own most of the media. Though many (e.g.) Americans like to claim they are skeptical of the media, the overwhelming majority are absolutely plugged in to their reality, capitalist realism. Though not strictly on climate, check out Sheldon Wolin's Inverted Totalitarianism. A proper democracy would not tolerate the inaction on climate we see today.

The reality is that Heartland is an organization which worked to bring the personnel and tactics of the tobacco-cancer denial machine to the fossil fuels industry. It's true that this particular article doesn't go into complete detail; That's something that's done for each individual claim made by Heartland on skepticalscience.com.

The consensus exists for a reason: it's been clear for decades that the world is warming, and human-induced changes in greenhouse gas concentrations are why.

I highly suggest a book called Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. It’s a good place to start to understand the complexities of getting people to act on this.

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Even-Think-About-Climate/dp/163286102X