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Dr. Muhammad Ittefaq

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Assistant Professor: @michiganstateu
Science Talk Podcast Host: @sciencetalkofficial

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“The hosts of the next major United Nations climate conference, Turkey and Australia, are facing criticism for being partners in a coal supply chain while remaining near silent on the need for a global deal to rapidly get off fossil fuels.” by @m.ittefaq

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Unsustainable Global Water Problem by @m.ittefaq

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2025 was the 4th consecutive year of widespread glacier loss across all regions.

Each bar shows the global glacier mass change in one hydrological year, from 1976 onwards. 🔵 = ice gain; 🔴 = ice loss. @wmo_omm by @m.ittefaq

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More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño in the next six months, according to estimates by climate scientists.

The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures already driven up by the climate crisis. It will strike across the globe, from Indonesia to India, and Nigeria to the US. Many further deaths are expected from the droughts, wildfires and flooding that El Niños bring. by @m.ittefaq

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Space Debris is growing rapidly and look this visualisation that no human live in space and still we leaving trash behind. This is insane. Credit: @theovon @thispastweekend_ @startalk @nasa @nasascience_ @nasaearth by @m.ittefaq

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18 days ago

New episode will be coming out soon. I invited the hosts of @climatepod Ty and Brock to talk about collapse, fossil fuel, Paris agreement, IPCC reports, AI, and more. Stay tuned! by @m.ittefaq

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19 days ago

About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice 5 feet (1.5 meters) deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report.

A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet’s two major ice sheets, with five-sixths of the melt not coming from hotter air, but from warmer waters eating away at the ice sheets from below and the sides, with glaciers flowing into the oceans, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Scientific Data. That’s bad news for future sea level rise, the study’s authors said. by @m.ittefaq

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20 days ago

Explaining to you all with the help of single click on Google. This policy will add more air pollution. Coal is the dirtiest form of energy because it releases soot. Soot is just no particulate but it is dangerous for human health. Air pollution kills 7-9 million people per year, and now more people will die because of this latest stupid move. by @m.ittefaq

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22 days ago

Corresponding with @sciencetalkofficial Prof. William Rees argues that UNEP’s new “Limiting Overshoot” report identifies a real danger but still fails to confront the deeper crisis driving it: humanity has already exceeded the ecological carrying capacity of the planet.

In his response, Rees says the UN remains trapped inside a growth paradigm that treats continued economic expansion as compatible with sustainability. That, he argues, prevents institutions from acknowledging what ecological overshoot actually means: humanity is consuming renewable resources faster than ecosystems can regenerate them and dumping wastes faster than the ecosphere can safely absorb them.

“Humanity is literally depleting and polluting the biophysical basis of its own existence,” Rees writes.

Climate breakdown is therefore not the whole crisis. Rees describes it as just one “co symptom” of overshoot alongside biodiversity collapse, deforestation, soil degradation, ocean acidification, marine dead zones, pollution and the accelerating depletion of the living systems on which civilisation depends.

His central warning is that we cannot solve overshoot while simultaneously demanding perpetual growth in production and consumption. Adding renewable energy, electric vehicles and other technologies may change how resources are consumed, but if total material and energy use keeps expanding, the underlying overshoot remains.

Rees argues that genuinely confronting the crisis means reducing humanity’s total ecological load, including major reductions in energy and material consumption, rather than trying to preserve endless economic expansion on a finite planet.

The implication is far more confronting than simply “limiting” a temporary breach of 1.5°C: climate overshoot is one manifestation of a much larger ecological overshoot, and a civilisation organised around perpetual growth cannot indefinitely expand inside a finite biosphere. by @m.ittefaq

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24 days ago

Watch @sciencetalkofficial interview with Prof. William Rees in full on YouTube.

This episode goes beyond climate change to confront the deeper crisis underneath it: ecological overshoot.

They discuss whether climate change is only one symptom of a much larger systemic problem driven by endless growth, overconsumption and the belief that humans somehow exist outside nature. Human exceptionalism has taught us to see ecosystems as resources rather than the living systems that keep us alive, but no species can exceed the carrying capacity of its environment indefinitely.

So what happens when overshoot ends? Is some form of societal and ecological bust now inevitable, and does it arrive by mid century, later this century, or beyond? What are the greatest threats humanity actually faces? What might a genuinely sustainable human population look like? Can technology really solve a crisis created by ever increasing energy and resource use, or does our faith in technological rescue allow us to avoid confronting the limits themselves?

They also explore what has gone wrong with modern society, why meaningful degrowth remains politically almost unimaginable, and whether humanity can voluntarily reduce its demands on the planet before ecological limits force that reduction upon us. by @m.ittefaq

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We have polluted the ocean so much with plastic, there won’t be any fish or fishing industry in 20 years. by @m.ittefaq

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The truth is rarely popular, and in a world where social norms have been shaped by fossil fuels even less so. But the truth is that there is no carbon budget and that nothing will improve until we all stop burning fossil fuels.
Join us, BOYCOTT FOSSIL FUELS!
www.boycottfossilfuels.org by @m.ittefaq

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