UN official: 2-percent of Elon Musk’s fortune could end world hunger

While losing 2 percent of his money would barely leave a dent in billionaire Elon Musk’s fortune, it would be more than enough to end word hunger, according to one United Nations official.

David Beasley, director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, says $6 billion dollars would save 42 million people from starvation and bring an end to world hunger. While that might sound like a lot of money to most people, it’s only a fraction of Musk’s estimated $289 billion fortune.

Beasley, who points out the net worth of U.S. billionaires have nearly doubled to $5.04 trillion since the pandemic began, is calling on Musk and other wealthy Americans to do their parts in helping feed the hungry. “We’re out of fuel,” Beasley says. “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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