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Not just decarbonize, but become a major fossil fuel exporter and be all smug about like a certain Nordic country…

• JohnFen 3y ago
  > 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.
  • justrealist 3y ago
    It offsets significant carbon production elsewhere (especially if we only export natgas), and defunds from some of the worst governments on earth.
    • JohnFen 3y ago
      > 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.
  • slt2021 3y ago
    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