#3226: Home Solar
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[Black Hat and Cueball stand next to a house with solar panels on the roof.]
Cueball: Wait, you got solar panels?
Cueball: I thought you were against renewables.
[Zoom to show only Cueball and Black Hat.]
Black Hat: Oh, definitely. I hate the environment and want to harm it as much as possible.
Black Hat: I'd love to have an oil furnace.
[Zoom in on Black Hat; only his head and shoulders are visible.]
Black Hat: But the technology just isn't there and the cost is too high.
Black Hat: I despise solar, but it makes more financial sense in my situation.
[Zoom out to show Cueball and Black Hat again.]
Black Hat: But with the money I'm saving, I can buy and burn industrial waste in my yard to try to make up for it.
Cueball: Ah, yeah, carbon onsets.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:"While I try to do my part to destroy the environment, I try not to focus too much on individual responsibility. By pushing for broad policy changes, we can collectively do far more damage to the biosphere than any of us could on our own."