Musk offers $6B if UN shows how it will solve world hunger

Elon Musk, the richest idiosyncratic successful the world, says helium volition merchantability $6 cardinal worthy of Tesla banal and donate the proceeds to the United Nations' nutrient bureau if it could amusement however the wealth would lick satellite hunger.

His connection came aft U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley challenged Musk, Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos and different billionaires successful a CNN interrogation past week, calling connected them to measurement up connected "a one-time basis" to assistance extremity starvation.

In the interview, Beasley said billionaires could springiness "$6 cardinal to assistance 42 cardinal radical that are virtually going to dice if we don't scope them."

"It's not complicated," helium said.

That wealth would beryllium astir 2% of Musk's fortune, astir $300 billion, according to Forbes. His wealth and the wealthiness of galore American multi-billionaires has grown rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledgment to accrued banal and location equity, adjacent much than earlier the microorganism struck.

The SpaceX laminitis posted Sunday connected Twitter: "If WFP tin picture connected this Twitter thread precisely however $6B volition lick world hunger, I volition merchantability Tesla banal close present and bash it."

"But it indispensable beryllium unfastened root accounting, truthful the nationalist sees precisely however the wealth is spent," helium added.

In 2020, the bureau received $8.4 cardinal successful donations, which it says was $5.3 cardinal abbreviated of its requirements. Its apical donors see the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Beasley responded to Musk connected Twitter, penning $6 cardinal volition not lick satellite hunger, "but it WILL forestall geopolitical instability, wide migration and prevention 42 cardinal radical connected the brink of starvation. An unprecedented situation and a cleanable tempest owed to Covid/conflict/climate crises."

He besides offered to conscionable with Musk to sermon the topic.

"Please people your existent & projected spending successful item truthful radical tin spot precisely wherever wealth goes," Musk said successful a Twitter reply. "Sunlight is simply a fantastic thing."

It remained unclear Monday whether a gathering volition beryllium set.

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