Musk offers $6B if UN shows how it will solve world hunger
Musk offers $6B if UN shows how it will
solve world hunger
November 1 2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del.,
Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk said on Twitter, Sunday, Oct. 31 he will sell $6
billion worth of Tesla stock and donate it to the United Nations' food agency if it
could show how the money would solve world hunger. Credit: AP Photo/Matt
Rourke, File
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Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, says he will sell $6 billion
worth of Tesla stock and donate the proceeds to the United Nations' food
agency if it could show how the money would solve world hunger.
His statement came after U.N. World Food Programme Executive
Director David Beasley challenged Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
and other billionaires in a CNN interview last week, calling on them to
step up on "a one-time basis" to help end starvation.
In the interview, Beasley said billionaires could give "$6 billion to help
42 million people that are literally going to die if we don't reach them."
"It's not complicated," he said.
That money would be approximately 2% of Musk's fortune, nearly $300
billion, according to Forbes. His wealth and the wealth of many
American multi-billionaires has grown quickly during the COVID-19
pandemic, thanks to increased stock and home equity, even more than
before the virus struck.
The SpaceX founder posted Sunday on Twitter: "If WFP can describe on
this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell
Tesla stock right now and do it."
"But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how
the money is spent," he added.
In 2020, the agency received $8.4 billion in donations, which it says was
$5.3 billion short of its requirements. Its top donors include the United
States, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Beasley responded to Musk on Twitter, writing $6 billion will not solve
world hunger, "but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass
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migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An
unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate
crises."
He also offered to meet with Musk to discuss the topic.
"Please publish your current & proposed spending in detail so people can
see exactly where money goes," Musk said in a Twitter reply. "Sunlight
is a wonderful thing."
It remained unclear Monday whether a meeting will be set.
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