By the end of this year, the Dutch political community will need to cough up a National Climate Agreement backed by a as broad as possible political coalition. The ambition is there, and the signs are favorable, but still a lot of checking and fine tuning needs to be done before this is a reality. In this article, I attempt to disentangle the complexity of the various aspects of the energy transition process before us and also try to map out what should and should not be done to obtain the broad popular support required to make this necessary conversion, work.