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Elon Musk’s recent announcement that he will donate $100 million to whomever develops the most promising technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is both exciting and depressing. Exciting because such incentives could galvanize new innovation. Depressing because, well, we’re officially in the billionaires-hoping-for-miracle-tech-fixes stage of the fight against climate change — desperation gussied up as a call to arms.