This is most 'progressive' parties in first world countries. Environmentalism, but only so long as it doesn't actually challenge the status quo of our society.

This is most 'progressive' parties in first world countries. Environmentalism, but only so long as it doesn't actually challenge the status quo of our society. You have the Liberal Party of Canada, which brought in a carbon tax, great, but in order to justify to the public their expansion of oil sands export development. The notion that we would stop pumping oil out of the ground and burning it is unthinkable. The even more progressive BC NDP also committed to exporting liquified natural gas to be burned in other countries, justifying it with promises of carbon tax increases. Parties that were considering our climate crisis with due gravity would be doing everything they could to lower CO2 emissions, not taking one step forward, and one step back, and fiddling around the edges.