{"id":5662,"date":"2011-04-23T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2011-04-23T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:59:54","slug":"gambling-with-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2011\/04\/gambling-with-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling with the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/stiglitz137\/English\">project-syndicate.org<\/a>, a piece by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in Economics):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the end, those gambling in Las Vegas lose more than they gain. As a society, we are gambling \u2013 with our big banks, with our nuclear power facilities, with our planet. As in Las Vegas, the lucky few \u2013 the bankers that put our economy at risk and the owners of energy companies that put our planet at risk \u2013 may walk off with a mint. But on average and almost certainly, we as a society, like all gamblers, will lose.<br \/>\nThat, unfortunately, is a lesson of Japan\u2019s disaster that we continue to ignore at our peril.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found at project-syndicate.org, a piece by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in Economics): In the end, those gambling in Las Vegas lose more than they gain. As a society, we are gambling \u2013 with our big banks, with our nuclear power facilities, with our planet. As in Las Vegas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2011\/04\/gambling-with-the-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gambling with the planet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2714],"class_list":["post-5662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-fukushima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}