Fact check:
🔹 2% of 's wealth is $6B
🔹 In 2020 the UN World Food Program (WFP) raised $8.4B. How come it didn't "solve world hunger"?
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If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.
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.! Headline not accurate. $6B 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.
For how long?
Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime, give him a fish and feed him for a day
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. With your help we can bring hope, build stability and change the future.
Let’s talk: It isn’t as complicated as Falcon Heavy, but too much at stake to not at least have a conversation. I can be on the next flight to you. Throw me out if you don’t like what you hear!
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Not one part of this explains the “how”
Ending hunger is a noble cause, but unfortunately the UN is hopelessly corrupt as are most of the donee nations. That is why he doesn’t believe you.
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Maybe create a plan for sustainable systems to feed those 42M forever. A one off to buy food for week or something isn’t a solution if there’s a sustainable one that could be devised for the same spend.
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“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”
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Head line may not be accurate but these are your words “all we need is $6.6B”
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Don’t make this the focal point. What is important is that hunger exists in the world and millions of people are suffering from it. With more contribution from wealthy people, political will, and action plan with independent supervision, this can change. Just help!
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Considering a cost of $1.26 per meal (cdn.wfp.org/2020/plate-of- for lack of a better source), $6B should help feeding 6.5M twice a day (out of 811M undernourished people globally) for a year - solving 0.8% of the total problem.
Curious to know what's been done to lower food costs!
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Sounds like you are just BS'ing Beasley, but the UN is pretty good at that, isn't it?
How did we get from "world hunger" to "preventing geopolitical instability"? And why did the goal shift to "mass migration"? Talk about world hunger.
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