Columns / What If
Articles about What If, ordered by date. 
What if…
What if we got real about sustainability? It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.
What if…
What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.
What if…
Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.
What if…
We had binding quotas for women in politics? Vanessa Baird looks at what gender parity can do.
What if…
A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.
What if... cities became car-free?
Vanessa Baird on how to turn a toxic bane into a liberating blessing.
What if... the world turned vegan?
Vanessa Baird dreams on. Or maybe not?
What if… we worked less?
Aidan Harper makes the case for a new politics of time.
What if... we regulated digital technology for the public good?
Jacob Ohrvik-Stott from Doteveryone on how to do it.
What if...
...we scrapped the gender binary on official documents? Vanessa Baird suggests a world beyond M or F.
What if... we reduced carbon emissions to zero by 2025?
Hazel Healy sketches out a radical scenario.
What if… social media firms paid us?
Exploitation by tech firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.
What if... people could migrate freely?
Vanessa Baird looks ahead at how things could be.
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| What if… | The biodiversity emergency | January, 2021 |
| What if… | A caring economy | November, 2020 |
| What if… | Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic | September, 2020 |
| What if… | The Kurds - betrayed again | July, 2020 |
| What if… | The fight for clean air | May, 2020 |
| What if… | How we make poverty | March, 2020 |
| What if… | Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone | January, 2020 |
| What if... cities became car-free? | China in charge | November, 2019 |
| What if... the world turned vegan? | Who owns the sea? | September, 2019 |
| What if… we worked less? | The right to the city | July, 2019 |
| What if... we regulated digital technology for the public good? | How to avoid climate breakdown | May, 2019 |
| What if... | Building a new internationalism | March, 2019 |
| What if... we reduced carbon emissions to zero by 2025? | Trade in Turmoil | January, 2019 |
| What if… social media firms paid us? | The dirt on waste | November, 2018 |
| What if... people could migrate freely? | Making peace in a world at war | September, 2018 |
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