The phrase 'if we neglect' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to introduce a conditional clause in a sentence, usually followed by an action. For example: "If we neglect to complete this project on time, then we could miss our deadline."
If we neglect prevention, the need for treatment will exponentially increase.
If we neglect this task and this opportunity, we won't lose just the northern Virginia suburbs.
"Future generations will never forgive us" he said, "if we neglect to meet this challenge".
If we neglect or abuse those natural resources, we undermine our own prosperity".
Every child has a talent to be nurtured and we fail, in ethical terms, if we neglect the potential of any young person.
For instance, if we neglect funding of observational equipment, we may no longer be able to conclude whether and how events are changing as the climate warms.
Freedom of expression is not a right we are granted in perpetuity – if we neglect it, it will wither like a plant you forget to water.
The care of nature and the care of the poor are aspects of the same ethical commandment, and if we neglect either one we cannot find peace.
First, we cannot manage water resources if we neglect to monitor some important hydrological parameters, such as rainfall, groundwater and surface water levels, water abstraction and changes in land use.
Yes, we know that our Google searches are recorded and used to refine Google's algorithm, that our behavior on social media is shared with advertisers, and that if we neglect to adjust our privacy settings, any stranger can see the photo from our college roommate's bachelorette party.
Not smoking over children in a car might seem like a silly irrelevance compared to the battle to reduce sizzling racial tension, tackle poverty and economic collapse, but if we neglect the societal housekeeping of small details we will eventually become undone, and Hume is to be congratulated for reminding us.
