> become a major fossil fuel exporter

Wouldn't doing that undo a lot of the gains from this? If we export fossil fuels instead of burning them, we aren't really decarbonizing. We're just having the carbonization take place somewhere else.

It offsets significant carbon production elsewhere (especially if we only export natgas), and defunds from some of the worst governments on earth.

> It offsets significant carbon production elsewhere

Does it? Or does it simply increase the amount of fossil fuels being used elsewhere?

> defunds from some of the worst governments on earth.

That has nothing to do with decarbonization, though.

you are right, oil extraction is literally producing carbon (which is then processed and burned at later stage somewhere else)

so we need to separate: carbon production and carbon emissions.

a lot of so called decarbonized industries are decarbonized simply because they outsourced carbon intensive parts to third world, but carbon is still being produced and emitted.

I think this is why some people are supporting De-Growth movement, that just by reducing consumption of nonessential stuff, we would decrease carbon production and emissions globally