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2026-10-20 08:45 UTC

The comic just points out the irony of buying into the personal responsibility narrative while participating in the hyperconsumption. It still works imho, because the car is still a ridiculous toy for rich people, so it is still stands for over consumption and over production due to capitalism. And the whole carbon foodprint thing was a PR stunt by the fossil fuel industry to shift the narrative away from the systemic issues towards individual responsibility. Obviously the bottle cap is not about the carbon foodprint at all. It is to reduce plastic pollution. But imho that confusion makes the joke even stronger because most people gobble up those pseudo-band-aid solutions to real issues without questioning their effectiveness in the slightest.

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  • @cmhe@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 10:52

    IDK, this all just left me confused. The bottle caps are for reducing plastic waste in nature, not carbon footprint, and its also not about personal responsibility, because it law (at least in EU). If it was responsibility then that guy bought them, because they wanted to do it. And I also didn’t get how that has anything to do with a electric stunt car decompressing air…

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