UN food-aid chief responds to Elon Musk challenge with famine plan

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UN food-aid chief responds to Elon Musk challenge with famine plan

8:45 CAT | 17 Nov 2021

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The head of the United Nations’ food aid arm presented a detailed plan to help avoid famine in 2022 to Tesla chief Elon Musk, responding to a challenge from the world’s richest man to explain how a donation from him could help alleviate global hunger.

“@elonmusk, you asked for a clear plan & open books. Here it is!” UN’s World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley wrote on Twitter Monday. “We’re ready to talk with you – and anyone else – who is serious about saving lives.”

This hunger crisis is urgent, unprecedented, AND avoidable. @elonmusk, you asked for a clear plan & open books. Here it is! We’re ready to talk with you – and anyone else – who is serious about saving lives. The ask is $6.6B to avert famine in 2022: https://t.co/eJLmfcMVqE

— David Beasley (@WFPChief) November 15, 2021

Musk, the world’s richest man, had raised the possibility of selling Tesla shares if the WFP could show how $6 billion would “solve world hunger.”

In the breakdown entitled “A One-Time Appeal to Billionaires,” the WFP said that about $3.5 billion would be used for food and delivery, with another $2 billion going toward cash and food vouchers.

.@elonmusk! Headline not accurate. $6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises.

— David Beasley (@WFPChief) October 31, 2021