I mean fuck Musk but c’mon that was a PR stunt, they aren’t making these available to the public and the dang thing is an electric car that rockets around on compressed air, it’s not like is a gas guzzling IC engine spraying hydrazine and NTO everywhere. It’s not a good target for this kind of criticism, even if other parts of SpaceX tech are.
The comic just points out the irony of buying into the personal responsibility narrative while participating in the hyperconsumption which is the real driver of pollution.
Therefor it still works imho, because the car is a ridiculous toy for rich people and 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.
I mean fuck Musk but c’mon that was a PR stunt, they aren’t making these available to the public and the dang thing is an electric car that rockets around on compressed air, it’s not like is a gas guzzling IC engine spraying hydrazine and NTO everywhere. It’s not a good target for this kind of criticism, even if other parts of SpaceX tech are.
It’s a good point poorly made.
The comic just points out the irony of buying into the personal responsibility narrative while participating in the hyperconsumption which is the real driver of pollution.
Therefor it still works imho, because the car is a ridiculous toy for rich people and 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.