According to cnn website reported on the 26th, David Beasley, director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said that a small group of super-rich people only need to donate a small part of their net worth to help solve the problem of world hunger. For example, Musk, whose net worth of nearly $289 billion only needs to donate 2% of his wealth, can solve this problem that is a headache for the world.
Beasley said on CNN's "Connecting the World" show on Tuesday that billionaires need to "stand up immediately," specifically mentioning the two richest people in the world, Bezos and Musk.
"It's not complicated to donate $6 billion to help the 42 million people on the planet who would die if they don't get help," he said.
Elon Musk Image Source: CNN website
According to Bloomberg, Tesla CEO Musk has a net worth of nearly $289 billion, meaning he only needs to donate 2% of his wealth.
According to the Progressive Group's Policy Institute and American Tax Fair, the net worth of U.S. billionaires has nearly doubled since the pandemic began, reaching $5.04 trillion in October.
Beasley said the combination of crises such as climate change and the pandemic foreshadows that many countries are "knocking on the door of famine."
According to a report released monday by the World Food Programme, half of Afghanistan's population of 22.8 million face a severe hunger crisis and 3.2 million children under the age of five are at risk.
David Beasley, Director of the United Nations World Food Programme Source: CNN website
In Ethiopia, WFP estimates that 5.2 million people in the Tigray region are in urgent need of food assistance and more than 2 million have been displaced.
"I don't know where they get their food from," Beasley said in an interview. "We run out of fuel, we don't have the money, we can't help them, and we can't get the trucks carrying the food in."
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