Murtaza Nek

Murtaza Nek, Massachusetts Team Program Coordinator

Murtaza is a Muslim environmentalist originally from South Florida. He graduated from MIT in 2009
having studied Math and Physics, tutored for a while thereafter, and now is presently working on a
farm in Texas. He finds that a person’s concern for the Earth follows naturally from knowledge of what
we’ve done and are doing to it as well as from the moral imperative to take responsibility as stewards of
our only home. While Murtaza is disturbed by the irreversible damage humans have done to the
biosphere, he’s also concerned that mankind as a whole might give up on halting runaway climate
change without putting up a real fight. Nonetheless he’s generally chill and enjoys math, science,
history, soccer, feeding and training the farm’s pet lamb, and various other things generally understood
to be fun . He made this up while in the process of trying to figure out what to write up for his profile statement, and thought you might like to read it:

Could climate change?
Look, listen! Lo,
Indeed it is.
May mankind’s might
Actualize an alternative
To this tentative
Eventuality: Earth’s end