{"id":129687,"date":"2021-10-29T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/2-of-elon-musks-wealth-could-solve-world-hunger-says-director-of-un-food-scarcity-organization"},"modified":"2021-10-29T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:22:37","slug":"2-of-elon-musks-wealth-could-solve-world-hunger-says-director-of-un-food-scarcity-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/2-of-elon-musks-wealth-could-solve-world-hunger-says-director-of-un-food-scarcity-organization","title":{"rendered":"2% of Elon Musk\u2019s wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2-of-elon-musks-wealth-could-solve-world-hunger-says-director-of-un-food-scarcity-organization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cperfect storm\u201d of several crises, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, mean many nations are \u201cknocking on famine\u2019s door,\u201d Beasley said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A small group of ultra-wealthy individuals could help solve world hunger with just a fraction of their net worth, says the director of the United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaires need to \u201cstep up now, on a one-time basis\u201d, said David Beasley in an interview on CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/shows\/connect-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">Connect the World<\/a> with Becky Anderson that aired Tuesday \u2014 citing specifically the world\u2019s two richest men, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/25\/tech\/blue-origin-space-station-jeff-bezos-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/26\/investing\/elon-musk-exxonmobil-net-worth\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don\u2019t reach them. It\u2019s not complicated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cperfect storm\u201d of several crises, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, mean many nations are \u201cknocking on famine\u2019s door,\u201d Beasley said. A small group of ultra-wealthy individuals could help solve world hunger with just a fraction of their net worth, says the director of the United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme. Billionaires need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,493,2019,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-climatology","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}