{"product_id":"cilgin-projeler","title":"Crazy Projects","description":"\u003cdiv class='\"col-half\"'\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 class='\"product-name\"'\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='\"col-half\"'\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book describes Mega Projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMany local and foreign experts, academics, journalists, and activists have made very important inferences about the development-nature relationship, which is one of the important issues of our time. One of the areas where the damages caused by this madness to the social and ecological balance are most clearly visible is what Paolo Prieri defines as \"Unnecessary and Imposed Projects.\" Unnecessary, because these projects based on imaginary demand forecasts are more about transferring rent to certain interest groups than meeting the real needs of people. Imposed, because in these projects, planned with public money on the commons of all living things, the rights of the public and nature are not recognized, and public participation in decision-making mechanisms is not ensured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor these unnecessary projects to be accepted, they also need to be \"marketed\" to the public. Romanian activist Codruta Nedelcu succinctly summarizes this marketing activity step by step as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1. Provide large numbers that excite everyone,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2. Play the so-called national interest card,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e3. Limit the game to technical issues, hide its socio-ecological dimension,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4. Alienate the assessment from people by using plenty of technical terms, flatter everyone's pride,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e5. Promise employment to those living in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is very clear how meticulously these stages have been handled in the campaigns conducted in Turkey recently through the government and its controlled media around imposed projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProjects that do not meet the real needs of people and disregard the rights of nature are unsustainable. These are projects where the cost is borne by people, nature, and future generations, while political profit is transferred to the government and economic profit to business circles close to the government. The current path taken in the name of economic development in Turkey or any country is not socially, ecologically, or even economically sustainable. It is not even possible to find an economic justification by taking refuge behind the argument \"but for economic development, we can overlook these for a while\" for these projects that destroy forests for roads, bridges, or canals, and displace people in the name of urban transformation. Because these projects do not contribute to economic sustainability either. Sectors such as iron-steel, cement, and construction that feed these projects are the sectors that increase the country's current account deficit the most. The solution in the short and medium term is to subject the economic structure to a green transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe need the participation, ideas, and common sense of the people affected by these projects, not madness and madmen. We need long-term initiatives that meet the requirements of the age, not investments of five or ten years. All of this will not happen on its own. At that point, we need public participation and ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book, which will amaze you as you read it and show you how alternatives are possible, will give you hope. Let's not forget that those who do nothing have no hope. A person without hope has no future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(From the Promotion Bulletin)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yeni İnsan Yayınevi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48383900516595,"sku":"9786055895648","price":590.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/9786055895648.jpg?v=1616017496","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/cilgin-projeler","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}