Tjeerd de Groot of ruling party D66 sees a future for nature through the plans. He does think that the transition to nature-friendly circular agriculture is going too slowly.
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painful message
Pieter Grinwis of coalition partner ChristenUnie speaks of a painful message, but ‘we live with too many people and animals in too small an area and that is not sustainable’.
The left-wing opposition supports the policy. “Much of what GroenLinks has been advocating for thirty years when it comes to nature and nitrogen is today announced by the cabinet,” says Laura Bromet. PvdA member Joris Thijssen sees a ‘firm nitrogen plan’ to kick-start housing construction and restore nature.
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anger at right
Right-wing parties are angry. According to Geert Wilders (PVV) ‘our farmers and our food supply will suffer’ because of the cabinet plans. Caroline van der Plas calls the proposals ‘unacceptable and ‘inhumane, without perspective, not legally substantiated, not proportional across the sectors’. According to the foreman of the BoerBurgerBeweging, the entire farming sector is ‘turned down’.
JA21 leader Joost Eerdmans speaks of ‘total madness’. “Degradation of our most important food supply, agricultural clear-cutting and our beautiful farmland is disappearing.” According to him, it is due to the ‘immeasurably high standards without necessity’ to which the Netherlands has ‘hung itself’.
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