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Check out this article. As the author points out, "some technology that is completely unknown right now will save us!" is magical thinking. A quote:

We could call the implausible amounts of disappearing carbon in the models a kind of “carbon rapture,” magicking the pollutant away by mysterious means. It’s easy to see how those eager to believe we can be saved from climate change’s effects without much effort would want to believe in the coming carbon rapture. But the dubiousness of this joyful “tech-will-save-us” assumption is getting harder to hide.

We've had over 100 years of scientific publications since the climate disaster was first identified and instead of using our knowledge to mitigate our environmental effects, we used technology instead to more effectively drain resources. If the covid pandemic (an arguably singular problem) is any indication, we are utterly incapable of coordinating any collective societal changes, even if it pertains to our very survival. It is preposterous to even humor the idea that after more than a century of ignoring the problem we will suddenly uproot the basis of our creature comforts (and the only way the last several generations have lived) in order to tackle something the average person cannot even tangibly understand.