Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'sustainable development'

Browse all alternate history scenarios about 'sustainable development'.

What If The Amazon Rainforest Was Never Deforested?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the Amazon rainforest remained intact, preserving its biodiversity and critical role in global climate regulation, with profound impacts on environmental systems and human development.

What If The Murray-Darling Basin Implemented Different Water Management?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Australia's Murray-Darling Basin implemented more sustainable water management policies in the early 2000s, dramatically altering the environmental, agricultural, and economic trajectory of the nation's food bowl.

What If The Sahel Implemented Different Anti-Desertification Strategies?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Sahelian nations adopted more effective anti-desertification approaches in the 1970s, potentially transforming the region's ecological, economic, and social trajectory.

What If Vientiane Implemented Different Development Strategies?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Vientiane, the capital of Laos, pursued alternative urban development approaches that balanced modernization with heritage preservation and sustainable growth.

What If Wind Power Was More Widely Adopted?

Exploring the alternate timeline where wind energy became a dominant global power source decades earlier, reshaping our energy infrastructure, economy, and climate response.

What If Tucson Had Pioneered Radical Water Conservation in the 1990s?

Exploring how Tucson, Arizona might have developed if it had implemented comprehensive water conservation and desert-adapted urban design decades before the Southwest water crisis became acute.