"Improved" is a relative term and says nothing of the associated costs. Could we maybe reduce costs and still "improve" at a slower, more sustainable pace? It's worth exploring the notion without turning to the dogma of efficiency at any cost.
Exactly. "At any cost" should only apply to long-term full-scale survival threats. With every other problem, you should only ever except "at reasonable cost."
And in order to know what cost is reasonable, you have to do some kind of rational analysis. There are few things less efficient than an ideology without an understood purpose.
