Musk willing to donate $6 billion to solve world hunger

Tesla laminitis and CEO Elon Musk says helium is consenting to merchantability $6 cardinal worthy of his company’s banal and donate the wealth to assistance extremity satellite hunger, but helium indispensable beryllium shown however it would beryllium done first.

He made the connection successful effect to a assertion by David Beasley, the manager of the United Nations’ World Food Programme.

Beasley called connected billionaires crossed the globe to donate, saying $6 cardinal would assistance 42 cardinal radical astir the satellite suffering from famine.

“The governments are tapped retired and this is why, and this is erstwhile the billionaires request to measurement up present connected a one-time basis, $6 cardinal to assistance 42 cardinal radical that are virtually going to dice if we don’t scope them. It’s not complicated,” Beasley told CNN successful an interview.

But successful a bid of tweets, Musk said Beasley indispensable beryllium and item however the wealth would beryllium spent to lick the problem.

“If WFP tin picture connected this Twitter thread precisely however $6B volition lick satellite hunger, I volition merchantability Tesla banal close present and bash it,” tweeted Musk.

Beasley aboriginal said $6 cardinal would really not extremity satellite hunger, but it would “prevent geopolitical instability, wide migration and prevention 42 cardinal radical connected the brink of starvation.”

Beasley besides invited Musk to beryllium down with him to look astatine the numbers and enactment retired a program to lick the famine crisis.

As of Monday, Musk has a nett worthy of $311 billion, making him the richest antheral successful the world, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.