The single PR stunt probably offset every inconvenience I'll suffered to lower my footprint for years

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 would argue everything musk says is a PR stunt and I don't expect the average human being from being able to distinguish this from the many other lies and false promises he said.

People still think solar roofs are going to happen, or that teslas will some how get full self driving in 2 years even though it was promised in 2 years a decade ago. People think Tesla robots are going to be able to do more than the fortnight floss dance and are willing to pay tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a paper weight that can't do anything.

Elons whole existance is to do PR stunts so he can scam stupid people into giving him more tax dollars. Americans hate African welfare queens, just not the right African welfare queen.