Posted on 05/27/2022 3:44:06 AM PDT by blam
Just months after Elon Musk had a public spat on Twitter about what the true cost of “solving world hunger would be”, the head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is urging billionaires to “step up” and confront the global threat of food insecurity.
The WFP boss had previously said “All we need is $6.6B—just .36% of the top 400 US billionaires’ net worth increase last year” in order to control a humanitarian crisis where in 42 million people in 43 countries face famine.
Musk had previously offered $6 billion if the World Food Programme could provide him “open sourced accounting” on how the $6 billion would be used to solve world hunger. Musk demanded that the public “see precisely how the money is spent” at the time.
Today, that $6 billion sits in limbo somewhere.
Agency Executive Director David Beasley told ABC this week: “Since then, Musk put $6 billion into a foundation. But everybody thought it came to us, but we ain’t gotten any of it yet. So I’m hopeful.
Beasley
“I don’t know what it’s going to take. We’re trying every angle, you know: Elon, we need your help, brother,” he continued.
The push by Beasley comes on the heels of a study that showed 1.9 billion people could face food insecurity by November. The report was presented at the Global Citizen NOW Summit in New York Monday.
Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans said of the report: “The projections are bleak right now. This doesn’t have to happen. A lot of institutions are failing people.”
He is hoping that launching the Global Citizen Impact Fund will help convince billionaires to donate, since it only requires payments on “pledges based on results”.
“The world is in real serious trouble. This is not rhetoric and B.S. Step up now, because the world needs you,” Beasley told the world’s billionaire’s on Monday.
Beasley also commented that if “Ukraine’s supplies remain off the market, the world could face a food availability problem in the next 10 to 12 months.”
Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Musk’s $6 billion as it relates to how it will help fight hunger, still remain unknown for the most part.
WTH would Musk payor her lawyers??
Is David Beasley the. EX GOVERNOR of NC or SC??
That’s a fancy suit there.... How many children could he feed with the cost of that suit? According to the commercials it’s “less than 2 dollars a day.”
Well, I could repeat Johnny Depp’s speculation as to why Musk did that, but the mods would remove it...
I’m sure most of it went to administrative overhead. Somebody has to pay for all the fuel for those private jets their owners are using to save the world. Feudalism doesn’t come cheap.
“You can “solve” it, in a sense, by equipping and enabling men to provide for their families.”
You’d have better luck waving a magic wand.
It is basic natural law that if you remove a boundary limiting a population, it will grow until it reaches another boundary.
I would assume you have read Malthus, but that would make be a fool.
Well I won’t bother with Malthus but am familiar with his basic philosophy.
Boundaries imposed by others yes.
But self sufficiency is it’s own boundary. Giving men freedom and general equity such as enforcement of contracts and peace and stability and the responsibility of providing for themselves and their own is the way imo
At this point you are just a bother.
All righty then. Thought we were having a friendly discussion. My mistake.
Looks like South Carolina.
Makes you wonder what the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation have accomplished. Did they get open book accounting how their billions were spent?
Is this a backdoor for Bill to make money on the other side?
Curious. Giving to charity is a wonderful thing, but why hasn’t Bill solved the hunger problem. Great opportunity for him to explain how it all works.
But I’m not holding my breath waiting for an answer.
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