Executive Director for the United Nations World Food Program, David Beasley, recently claimed in the interview about CNN that “2% of the wealth of Elon Musk” would be enough to resolve the world hunger issue.
According to Bloomberg, Musk is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 289 billion.
So, 2% of his wealth stood around $ 6 billion.
“$ 6 billion to help 42 million people will truly die if we don’t reach them.
It’s not complicated,” Beasley said in a report by CNN.
@Drelidavid If the WFP can describe this Twitter utas exactly how much $ 6B will finish world hunger, I will sell Tesla’s stock now and do it.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1635688255000in Reply to this, Musk said he would pay 2% of his wealth to Because only if the UN World Food Program can explain how $ 6 billion will solve problems and only the UN needs to openly reveal how the money will be spent.
“If the WFP can describe this Twitter utas exactly how much $ 6B will finish the world hunger, I will sell Tesla’s shares now and do it,” tweeted musk “but it must be open source accounting, so the public looks precisely how the money is spent,” Musk added in another tweet.
Beasley quickly answered and said, “We have never said $ 6B will finish world hunger.
This is a one-time contribution to save 42 million during the unprecedented hunger crisis.” Increasing further he said, “$ 8.4 billion You refer to include what we need to reach 115 million people in 2020 with food assistance.
We need $ 6b plus now on our existing funding requirements because of the perfect storm of the impact of compounding from Covid shocks, conflict and climate.
“Challenging The United Nations, Musk answered again, “Please publish your current spending & proposed in detail so that people can see exactly where money is running.
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