Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate calls on the Government to develop a white paper on population during this period of government which takes into account:

(a)

projections of a global population of between 9 to 10 billion people by 2050;

(b)

the inability of the Earth to provide for 9 to 10 billion people if average resource consumption is to be at current levels in Australia;

(c)

climate change;

(d)

Australia’s inability to host exponential population growth; and

(e)

the wellbeing of future generations and life on Earth.

Question put.