Striking for me, the speaker held up an inflatable globe – I had always imagined that when you look at a globe, most of it is covered in water but I never realised that only 2% of the earth’s water is fresh water. If you think about it, we compete against animals, plants etc. to use this limited resource and when you combine that thinking with the fact that at present 7 billion people live on planet Earth and this is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2030, so with an increasing population, increasing consumption of the earth’s natural resources like water – this is placing a huge strain on the planet’s resources. The speaker ended the presentation with a stark fact – by 2030, if we carry on with the current rate of consumption, we will need the equivalent resource of two planet Earth’s to carry on the way we are living.