Ceteris paribus. Of course you can construct examples where welfare remains the same with higher costs. On net though this is highly unlikely.
Uh, but in this case we have relatively stable figures on how many people die from various things, so the new information is necessarily of the form “more difficult to fix a known problem” rather than “problem is less bad than we thought”.
Ah, I see. So bad news :(
Ceteris paribus. Of course you can construct examples where welfare remains the same with higher costs. On net though this is highly unlikely.
Uh, but in this case we have relatively stable figures on how many people die from various things, so the new information is necessarily of the form “more difficult to fix a known problem” rather than “problem is less bad than we thought”.
Ah, I see. So bad news :(