Tesla’s Elon Musk has thrown a challenge at the United Nations saying on Twitter that he would pitch in to solve world’s hunger by selling $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.’
Earlier, David Beasley, the director of UN’s World Food Program (WFP) while talking about world’s hungry, told CNN that it was time for the ultra-wealthy ‘step up now, on a one-time basis’ to ‘help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don’t reach them.”
Posting on Twitter on Sunday, the Tesla chief executive said: “If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion 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.
Beasley replied to Musk’s post on Twitter, saying he could assure the billionaire that the WFP had the systems in place for transparency and open source accounting.
“Your team can review and work with us to be totally confident of such,” he said.
“$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.
