Van der Plas calls the squabbles on social media, Twitter in particular, a trench war. “It goes hard against hard, also from the farmers. Tweets like this don’t help at all. Then the heels only go deeper in the sand, while we all really have the same goal: to take good care of nature. One does it that way and the other that way, but the goal is the same. Let’s keep that as a dot on the horizon.”