“PERHAPS give our planet a second chance” - you gotta love just how bought in and terrorized these people a Newsweak are.
The typical Newsweak writer is the equivalent of a brainwashed, uneducated high school sophomore. Here's the one that wrote this tripe...
Note, no where in the article does it say how they plan to get energy out of CO2. CO2 is the product of combustion, it cannot be further oxidized. To get energy from it you have to put in energy to split it back to Carbon and oxygen - a total waste.