SP w7 in the news in the Netherlands
- HildeMaassen
- Nov 8, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 15, 2020
Climate change is an important topic in the Dutch news. Every newspaper is full of it and you cannot turn on the television or you are bombarded with it. The biggest problem is that the government is too late to take action to meet the agreed reduction of CO2 and nitrogen standards. The consequences for farmers and construction are therefore enormous. As soon as measures are announced, there will be a discontinuation, after which measures will be withdrawn, with the result that nothing will happen.
The construction of houses is now virtually silent while we are short of 60,000 houses. In the meantime, Schiphol Airport has received permission to expand and Feijnoord is allowed to build a new stadium for the football club. The race track at Zandvoort has been reopened and the visitors would all go there by bike, which of course nobody believes.
In my opinion this is a very weak policy. If you want to make changes, you don't want to be popular and certainly not reverse every decision you make. We are now waiting again for the announced measure that we will not be able to drive as fast on motorways. Now we can ride on large parts of 130, which has to go back to 100 (but then again not everywhere).
This presentator is very populair and he tries to change the opinion.
This kind of post its you see on Facebook
"Here I love, and I am told that we have to take care of nature"
"By people, Who live here".
Kadir van Lohuizen is a Dutch photographer and videomaker. He has a 4 hours documentaire on the television at this moment about the situation in Bangladesh and other far-away countries. In his exhibition we also see images taken in the Netherlands. The exhibition is a wake-up call and highlights the worldwide and irreversible consequences of rising sea levels. He traveled to Greenland, Miami, New York, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Jakarta, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Panama and the United Kingdom.
The website shows some kind of interactive ways to see what is happening:
First I had to fill-in where I live
And then they tell me that, yes, my house, and I, will be flooded in the future; 3 meters. I won't have water, electricity, toilet, internet. The change is less then 1 % but it can be tomorrow is the message.
On this site you see and hear what can happen.
Conclusion; the climate change debat start to influences the media but the big needed change is not there, yet.
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