United Nations World Food Program official David Beasley, who clashed with Elon Musk on Twitter last year, said he has not left out the Tesla billionaire contributing to the fight against world hunger.
United Nations World Food Program official David Beasley, who clashed with Elon Musk on Twitter last year, said on Monday that he has not left out the Tesla billionaire contributing to the fight against world hunger, although the two were not in direct contact. Huh.
In response to Beasley’s challenge to the super rich last year to end global hunger, Musk said he would sell $6 billion of Tesla stock and donate it to the World Food Program if the organization gave more details about it. That’s how he spent his money.
Beazley, who eventually left the exchange after an unproductive one, said at the World Economic Forum on Monday that he was ready to meet with Musk to expand his views, even though there is no longer any direct contact between the two.
“But there is some indirect contact through friends, relatives, representatives; there are a lot of wealthy people in the world who can step up, not just Elon,” Beasley said on the sidelines of a panel discussion. “But hopefully we will still pursue him.”
In his panel session, Beasley accused Russia of waging a war on global food security by blocking Ukraine’s ports, threatening millions of people with famine, mass migration and political instability.
With Russia essentially closing its ports, Ukraine has struggled to export its vast grain supply, deepening a global food crisis that risks destabilizing parts of the world and Helps push inflation to decade highs.
“Failure to open ports is a declaration of war on global food security,” Beasley said. “The world’s breadbasket now has the world’s longest bread lines.”
“Due to this crisis, we are taking food from the hungry and giving it to the hungry people,” he said.
Russia and Ukraine together account for about a third of the global wheat supply. Ukraine is also a major exporter of corn, barley, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil, while Russia and Belarus – which supported Moscow in its war in Ukraine – account for more than 40% of global exports of potash, a crop nutrient.
(Reporting by Jessica DiNapoli; Editing by Mark Potter)
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