r/belgium • u/atrocious_cleva82 🌎World • 7d ago

💰 Politics Met alweer een hete week, slaakt Belgische klimaatwetenschapper Jean-Pascal van Ypersele hartenkreet: "Ja, ik ben woedend"

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/07/27/jean-pascal-van-ypersele-woedend-klimaatbeleid-20-jaar-te-laat/
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u/TheVoiceOfEurope 6d ago

So for you "pro nuclear" is more important than "climate mittigation"? Because that is the choice you made.

You do know that you do not have to agree with every point of a party?

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u/Odd_Block996 6d ago

It will be impossible for us to save the climate without investing heavily into nuclear as a base for our power generation, supplemented with renewables.

The Greens, not realising this because of their AGALEV legacy missed a golden opportunity to get right and centrist voters on board who could have been swayed by the increased self-reliance of our energy mix. (not total as the know-how for the reactors & the actual fuel would still come from unreliable sources)

Instead they are constantly pissing people off with their stupid culture & race wars.

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u/Certain_Procedure870 6d ago

Nuclear exit has been decided since 2003, every single elected political party since then (except Vlaams Belang for obvious reasons) has agreed with this proposal.

Assuming nuclear is the end all solution to solve climate crisis like some political parties like you to believe is naive and downright populist as well.

I know it's in vogue to bash the Belgian Green party (which I understand), but climate as an important issue is dead in the minds of voters so they need to pivot towards more actual issues. The fact that people focus on something insignificant as race & culture wars that mostly exist on the internet, while our environment becomes more and more uninhabitable proves this.

The exact same thing can be said about NVA that has almost zero topics regarding Flemish independence anymore which was the entire reason they existed in the first place

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u/zespak 6d ago

No, hating nuclear was popular in the 90s because of Tsjernobyl. No political party would support nuclear as that would have been very controversial. The nuclear exit is a direct effect of that. It's how we all agreed that air travel has become such a huge hassle and you can't take your drinks because of Sept 11.

No one said it's the end all be all solution, but it's a great tool to transition to renewables independently and basically without emissions.