The techno-solutionists have already given up on (sufficient) mitigation
Mitigation Alone Not Sufficient: Eliminating humanityβs ongoing emissions of Carbon Dioxide will not occur in a timeframe that avoids dangerous climate change and unacceptable impacts on humans and the biosphere
Bullet point no 1 in Summary of Direct Air Capture mobilization report https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f87568f1d6c5b6fd770af0b/t/5fb31d807f660d78bad6b346/1605574022092/DAC-Climate-Mobilization-Report-20201116.pdf
There's much to the basic point but there's also a strong risk that it produces the very problem it is intended to solve (ie. it encourages more inaction on mitigation on the assumption that somehow "tech will solve it for us".