I didn't read the article but I did scan it and I saw this...
Oil and gas companies lobbied for the direct air capture money to be included in the law, arguing that the world could continue to burn fossil fuels if it had a way to clean up their planet-warming pollution.
Technology in the hands of the rich and the states they own will not help us. Even if this stupid scam was a miraculous success, all it would do is embolden industrialists to pollute much, much more aggressively because "it can be fixed anyway"
Move away from false dichotomies.
Move away from billionaire PR