Elon Musk offers to sell Tesla stock “right now” if UN can show how $6 billion will solve world hunger

His feedback got here after UN World Food Programme (WFP) director David Beasley challenged the ultra-wealthy — and specifically the world’s two richest males Jeff Bezos and Musk — to “step up now, on a one-time basis” to assist solve world hunger in an interview with CNN final week.

“$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don’t reach them. It’s not complicated,” Beasley stated on CNN’s Connect the World program with Becky Anderson. That sum would equate to roughly 2% of Musk’s internet wealth.

Beasley replied to Musk’s put up on Twitter, saying he may guarantee the billionaire that the WFP had the methods in place for transparency and open supply accounting.

“$6 billion 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,” he added.

Addressing the billionaires immediately within the CNN interview, he stated: “What if it was your daughter starving to death? What if it was your family starving to death? Just, wake up, smell the coffee and help.”

As of Monday, Musk had a internet price of $311 billion, in accordance to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, making him the richest man within the world.

The internet price of US billionaires has nearly doubled because the pandemic started, standing at $5.04 trillion in October, in accordance to progressive teams Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness.

— Additional reporting by Eoin McSweeney and Adam Pourahmadi.