Net Zero Traffic Jam
Climate leadership is mocked as performative and status-obsessed: elites preach urgency and sacrifice while preserving the high-carbon rituals of power, turning 'net zero' into branding stranded in its own hypocrisy.
A single-panel cartoon set outside a sleek glass-walled global climate summit. Huge banners over the entrance proclaim 'FAST-TRACK TO NET ZERO' and 'URGENT CLIMATE ACTION NOW,' but the entire approach road is immobilized by an absurdly long line of identical black VIP limousines idling bumper-to-bumper, stretching to the horizon. The summit doors are physically unreachable behind a wall of polished hoods and exhaust fumes. Delegates wearing green lanyards and eco-badges have stepped out of their cars not to walk in, but to pose for cameras around a tiny ceremonial sapling planted in a decorative pot on the curb. Meanwhile chauffeurs sit trapped in a visible gray haze, and a weary traffic officer points helplessly at a sign marked 'Summit Entrance.' The key image is that the conference on cutting emissions is itself blocked by the prestige machinery that produces them.