Dr Gabriel Rau 🌏💧
@hydrogeoscience
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Teacher & explorer (PhD) of #Hydrogeology @Uni_Newcastle (💧+🌏=🌱). Passionate e-bike commuter (🚴) in a sea of #WankTanks. German-Australian forever.
Planet with water and life
Joined April 2017
Excellent article by #jacktoohey in @smh on our obsession with real estate & its many negative consequences; “Aust finds itself in a paradox. Passive property ownership appears more financially rewarding than productive work…distorted reward system” Tax reform now!
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Humanity’s failure to grasp the exponential function is fast becoming its downfall.
With a 30 year mortgage it takes 14 years to pay off 25% of the outstanding principal. With a 50 year mortgage it takes 30 years to pay off 25% of the principal. Chart: @mtkonczal
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. - Carl Sagan
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China would be able to solve Australia 's housing crisis in one week ...
The Chinese company Broad Group set a record by constructing a 10-story residential building in 28 hours and 45 minutes. During this time, a team of workers, using three cranes, not only erected the walls but also completely prepared the building for occupancy. The secret lies
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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This is how you respond to the entrenched superiority complex of the West 👏
"China will lose the US market" "We don't care, China has been here for 5000 years, most of the time there was no United States, and we survived" 💪💪💪 (Victor Gao, Chinese lawyer and businessman)
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There is a choice coming. Not between war and peace. Between collapse and humility. Either you learn to speak to the maker Without spitting in its face, Or you explain to your own people Why the lights went out While you were lecturing the world about "values."
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Now replace the words "Keir Starmer" (UK) with "Anthony Albanese" (Australia) and "Yvette Cooper" (UK) with "Penny Wong" (Australia) - and the meaning still stands! @AlboMP @SenatorWong
“They are utterly meaningless…they are going to be out of power very soon”. @kieran_andrieu discussing @Keir_Starmer & @YvetteCooperMP with @novaramedia on his return to the UK.
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My latest words in The Shot. "The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club" . https://t.co/xMOd8wVSJd
theshot.net.au
There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...
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Now here's somebody the world should mourn Here's a woman deserving of all the accolades & all the glory & all the stars we have in our heavens One of the brightest, most compassionate, beautiful humans to ever walk our planet May you fly high O Captain, O glorious Captain ❤️
Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. You taught us that kindness is a form of strength and that respect for life in all its forms is the truest measure of humanity. You will be dearly missed. 💔
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New study in Nature links 213 heatwaves directly to fossil fuel and cement producers. Just one major emitter alone could make a heatwave 10,000x more likely. Yes, just one. Turns out, heatwaves are engineered and subsidised.
nature.com
Nature - Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 September 2025
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Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! https://t.co/Q4WFj5Vykh
washingtonpost.com
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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If only Australia valued a deep tech industry, we'd be able to benefit from inventions such as solar. But yeah nah, it's too hard. Instead, we dig up rocks and trade glorified tents.
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Marten Scheffer’s appeal to media and scientists: reveal the invisible hand of vested interest players! It is this ‘invisible hand’ of lobby power which so far has prevented us from tackling the #ClimateCrisis, despite having the solutions. #GlobalTippingPoints2025
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"The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing" Read the full story: https://t.co/OOtf05mYrR
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This is spot on 🎯
A government cutting funding for science and R&D to save money is like a farmer trying to cut costs by not buying seeds for the next season
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New open-access 'Issue Article' on the increase in saline groundwater pumping from coastal aquifers to support on-land aquaculture operations -> guidelines & legislation should be better grounded in coastal hydrogeological science and engineering https://t.co/EvRKdwtPsY
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An example of why the world needs geoscientists. They can bring the death toll of an event from hundreds down to a few to none.
Re: Blatten Glacier collapse; interesting point by glaciologist Rachel Carr in recent Bloomberg Green newsletter: “It was the least worst scenario — any loss of property or homes is a tragedy, but they were prepared for it”. As the newsletter (by Laura Millan) points out, much of
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It is comforting how vast and wonderful the universe will remain even after we’ve wrecked this planet.
🚨This is a new image from JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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