Viewing: September 23,2026
Join us Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as our Sustainability Series features a hard-hitting documentary about the effects of the U.S. Military’s insatiable appetite for fossil fuels!
Admission is FREE – Tickets are required
This event will include a pre-show presentation by Dr. Geoff Dabelko
About the film
Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the second feature film project by Abby Martin, is a groundbreaking anti-imperialist environmental documentary.
Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe. Combining investigative journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, this film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences. Provocative, urgent, and eye-opening, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism.
About the speaker
Geoff Dabelko works at the interface of research and policy on questions tackling links between climate change and security, fostering environmental peacebuilding, and making more age-friendly and climate resilient for older adults. He has over three decades of experience bringing together individuals and organizations not accustomed to working together on shared challenges and opportunities.
“Wide-ranging challenges like climate change and peace and security require us to break out of our silos to understand the impacts and execute responses across sectors, geographies, and scales,” Dabelko said. “The transdisciplinary, service-focused mission of the Voinovich School embraces this difference-making collaborative approach to teaching, research, and practice.”
Dabelko joined Ohio University in 2012 as a professor at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service. He has served as director of the Environmental Studies Program and as an associate dean.
From 1997-2012, he served as director of the Environmental Change and Security Program, a nonpartisan policy forum on environment, population, and security issues at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He continues as a senior adviser to the Wilson Center and as an associate senior fellow with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, grappling with the complex connections among environment, climate, conflict, peacebuilding, and security.
Dabelko is an expert in climate change, environment, and foreign and security policy. He focuses on climate change and security, environmental peacebuilding, water conflict and cooperation and climate resilience for age-friendly communities.
Check out the rest of our line-up of Sustainability Films
The series is made possible thanks to the support of: University Libraries, Honors Tutorial College, Office of Sustainability, and The Voinovich School’s Environmental Studies Program.
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