Is there a word for the phenomena of preventive measures for just about anything (e.g climate, pandemic, health) being difficult to enact because it’s hard to prove the crisis you’ve averted after the fact? The example of Y2K comes to mind
Let’s say we fireproofed every home in a CA wild urban interface and did controlled burns and as a result no homes were destroyed by fire, how could you prove these interventions were necessary enough to keep funding them year over year?