PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast

Rocks for the Future - with MIT Prof. Oli Jagoutz

June 11, 2026·44 min
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What does cracking open green-shiny rocks in a German preschool have to do with feeding eight billion people without oil and gas? In this episode, Jesse sits down with Oliver "Oli" Jagoutz, professor at MIT and director of the Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL), for a wide-ranging conversation that travels from the Himalayas to the wastewater treatment plant — and makes the case that geology might be one of the most societally relevant sciences of the coming decades. Oli traces his winding path...

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