... because removing carbon from 99% pure flue gas is a lot easier than removing carbon at 400PPM from the atmosphere.
Even if every bit of farmland on the planet was growing sugarcane for BECCS, we still would only pull ~9GT/y out of the atmosphere, on par with our current net emissions.
Of course, solving climate change is not actually a difficult problem. A $50/ton carbon tax would make all of these things profitable, including CCS on existing natural gas plants.
(source: climate R&D group)