'Crazy' projects like Canal Istanbul also cause health problems: 'It increases the temperature of the city'

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President Tayyip Erdoğan's "crazy project" The channel he introduced as Reactions to the Istanbul Project is increasing day by day. Turkish Thorax At the 28th annual congress of the Association de experts Channel Istanbul warnings repeated. Turkish Thorax Association Board of Directors Chairman Prof. Dr. Nurdan Köktürk, Channel Reactions to Istanbul reasons and the project problems caused by Köktürk told Cumhuriyet, “Projects like Canal Istanbul, The decrease in green areas of cities increase in concrete density and cities getting warmer On the one hand, it is dirty weather, on the one hand, rising temperatures “It threatens our health” He used the expressions.

'IT WILL CAUSE POLLUTION'

Air pollution in cities is very common Stating that there are many reasons Köktürk said, “Air pollution, transportation and traffic, industry organizations, heating, construction construction and demolition works, etc. number of sources available. This pollution is also city ​​planning, wind absence of corridors, lack of sufficient afforestation It is also closely related to Traffic share of air pollution caused by percent in developing countries It is estimated to be around 50 This traffic is caused by air pollution low birth asthma in children from rates the emergence of the disease, respiratory functions bad, childhood cancers, asthma in adults, COPD disease, cardiovascular disease diseases, dementia and lung all causes including cancer "causes related deaths" spoke.

The biggest problems today the climate crisis at the beginning Köktürk stated the following views: He expressed: “When planning cities, taking these into consideration climate crisis resilient cities planning is our top priority should become. Extreme weather extreme temperature events deaths due to increases early precautions to prevent to be climate resilient planning cities, where we will live health problems of great importance to prevent Increasing concreting, due to decreasing green area As time goes by, the city temperature increases.”