2% of Elon Musk's wealth could solve world starvation, says director of UN food scarcity organization

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Billionaires must "step up now, on a one-time basis", mentioned David Beasley in an interview on CNN's Connect the World with Becky Anderson that aired Tuesday -- citing particularly the world's two richest males, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

"$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don't reach them. It's not complicated," he added.

A "perfect storm" of a number of crises, equivalent to local weather change and the Covid-19 pandemic, imply many countries are "knocking on famine's door," Beasley mentioned.
Half of the inhabitants of Afghanistan -- 22.8 million folks -- face an acute starvation disaster, based on a WFP report launched Monday. Rampant unemployment and a liquidity disaster means the nation is teetering on the sting of a humanitarian disaster and three.2 million youngsters beneath the age of 5 are in danger, the report concluded.
David Beasley, director of the United Nations' World Food Program
A series of new reviews from the Biden administration issued a stark warning final week: The results of local weather change will likely be wide-reaching and can pose issues for each authorities.

Among the reviews, the administration particulars how local weather change is driving migration, the primary time the US authorities is formally recognizing the {link} between local weather change and migration. The WFP has warned about this swell of motion previously, notably within the "Dry Corridor" area in Central America.

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"For example, take the United States and the region in Central America, the Dry Corridor, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua -- just down in that area alone," mentioned Beasley Tuesday. "We're feeding a lot of people down there and the climate is just changing with hurricanes and flash flooding; it's just devastating."

In Ethiopia, the WFP estimates that 5.2 million folks are in pressing want of food help within the Tigray area, the place Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has led a serious offensive in opposition to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) since final 12 months. Thousands of civilians have since been killed, whereas greater than 2 million have been displaced.

Humanitarian organizations just like the WFP have struggled to get provides to these in want within the area, compounding the disaster.

"I don't know where they're getting the food from," mentioned Beasley within the wide-ranging interview. "We're out of fuel. We're out of cash, in terms of paying our people and we are running out of money and we can't get our trucks in."



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