Here’s Who The UN’s World Food Program Wants To ‘Step Up’
addkm/Shutterstock By Lauren Cahn/May 24, 2022 11:40 am EST
The mission of the Nobel Prize-winning U.N.’s World Food Programme is to end global hunger. Last October, Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, set aside just under $6 billion, which the program’s head, David Beasley, seemed to believe was earmarked for donation to the program, per AP News. Beasley’s belief came out of a Twitter dialogue in which Musk seemingly pledged $6 billion of his own liquidated Tesla stock to the program for the purpose of solving the global hunger crisis.
The catch, however, which was expressed unequivocally by Musk, is that as a condition for the donation, the program was tasked with describing – right in the Twitter thread in question, exactly how $6 billion will end global food insecurity. However, that has not happened thus far. In fact, Beasley long ago walked back an earlier statement, attributed to him by CNN, to the effect that if only Elon Musk would donate what amounts to 2% of his enormous wealth to the program, it could end world hunger once and for all. As Beasley tweeted back in October, “$6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation,” per Fortune.
Nevertheless, in a statement to AP on the occasion of the 2022 World Economic Forum now taking place in Davos, Switzerland, Beasley reminded the world the program’s still waiting – and not solely for Musk, for that matter.
Here’s Who The UN’s World Food Program Wants To ‘Step Up’
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By Lauren Cahn/May 24, 2022 11:40 am EST
The mission of the Nobel Prize-winning U.N.’s World Food Programme is to end global hunger. Last October, Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, set aside just under $6 billion, which the program’s head, David Beasley, seemed to believe was earmarked for donation to the program, per AP News. Beasley’s belief came out of a Twitter dialogue in which Musk seemingly pledged $6 billion of his own liquidated Tesla stock to the program for the purpose of solving the global hunger crisis.
The catch, however, which was expressed unequivocally by Musk, is that as a condition for the donation, the program was tasked with describing – right in the Twitter thread in question, exactly how $6 billion will end global food insecurity. However, that has not happened thus far. In fact, Beasley long ago walked back an earlier statement, attributed to him by CNN, to the effect that if only Elon Musk would donate what amounts to 2% of his enormous wealth to the program, it could end world hunger once and for all. As Beasley tweeted back in October, “$6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation,” per Fortune.
Nevertheless, in a statement to AP on the occasion of the 2022 World Economic Forum now taking place in Davos, Switzerland, Beasley reminded the world the program’s still waiting – and not solely for Musk, for that matter.
The catch, however, which was expressed unequivocally by Musk, is that as a condition for the donation, the program was tasked with describing – right in the Twitter thread in question, exactly how $6 billion will end global food insecurity. However, that has not happened thus far. In fact, Beasley long ago walked back an earlier statement, attributed to him by CNN, to the effect that if only Elon Musk would donate what amounts to 2% of his enormous wealth to the program, it could end world hunger once and for all. As Beasley tweeted back in October, “$6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation,” per Fortune.
Nevertheless, in a statement to AP on the occasion of the 2022 World Economic Forum now taking place in Davos, Switzerland, Beasley reminded the world the program’s still waiting – and not solely for Musk, for that matter.
Attention billionaires of the world, the UN’s World Hunger Programme sees you
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