UN Shows Musk Plan vs World Hunger, Waits For His Promised $6B

The director of the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) laid out a plan to spend $6.6 billion to combat world hunger — a direct response to a back-and-forth with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claimed he would sell Tesla stock to fund a plan if the WFP could describe "exactly how" it would work, Jackie Wattles reported for CNN Business.

Photo Insert: UN World Food Program (WFP) Director David Beasley

David Beasley, the UN food program director and former Republican governor of South Carolina, tweeted a link on Monday to a 1,000-word "executive summary.

It maps out how the UN would deploy $6.6 billion worth of meals and vouchers to feed more than 40 million people across 43 countries that are "on the brink of famine" — thereby averting what the WFP is calling a looming "catastrophe."

In the document Beasley posted, the WFP proposes dedicating $3.5 billion to buy and deliver food directly, $2 billion "for cash and food vouchers (including transaction fees) in places where markets can function," and spending another $700 million to manage new food programs that are "adapted to the in-country" conditions and ensure "the assistance reaches the most vulnerable."

Another $400 million would be used for "operations management, administration and accountability" and supply chain coordination.

"The world is on fire," Beasley wrote. "I've been warning about the perfect storm brewing due to COVID, conflict, climate shocks & now, rising supply chain costs. IT IS HERE."

"This hunger crisis is urgent, unprecedented, AND avoidable," Beasley wrote in a separate tweet, tagging Musk, who is the world's wealthiest person with a net worth of approximately $288 billion.

"You asked for a clear plan & open books. Here it is! We're ready to talk with you - and anyone else - who is serious about saving lives." As of Wednesday afternoon, Musk had not responded.

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