Biden spoke Monday in Glasgow, Scotland, where world leaders gathered to discuss the implementation of an agreement to curb global warming by mid-century. World leaders received stern warnings when the summit was opened by Johnson, the head of the United Nations, and delegates from countries threatened by rising sea levels or drought due to global warming.
The interview with the WFP directors follows a tweet he wrote earlier this month in which he specifically asked Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to help solve the world hunger, whose net worth is $ 311 billion and $ 199 billion, respectively, to help solve it. On Monday, November 1, Musk tweeted that he would sell Tesla stock and donate it to the UN Food Agency if he could.
While Musk appears to be calling for greater transparency in the United Nations World Food Program, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020, he and his companies are not particularly communicative. Tesla TSLA, + 0.15 percent, closed its press office in 2020 and Musk’s charity engages with the public through a hard-to-reach website. Show Source Texts
In an interview with CNN, Beasley pointed out that while the fortunes of billionaires like Musk rose during the pandemic to new heights, the daily lives of the world’s poorest people have deteriorated: Musks Net worth has grown to over $ 300 billion since Beasley’s first tweet. Show Source Texts
However, the $ 6 billion will be less than 2% of Musk’s current fortune, according to Forbes, this money will make up about 2% of Musk’s fortune, more than $ 300 billion. Musk’s wealth and the wealth of many American millionaires grew rapid thanks to the rise of stocks and real estate, even more than before the disease hit. Musk’s wealth comes from a sharp rise in Tesla shares this year that joined the club of a select few companies worth over $ 1 trillion.
Experts recently predicted that Musk would become the world’s first trillionaire, but said the luck would come from his SpaceX venture, not Tesla. Musk now represents more than $ 100 billion more than Bezos, the second largest man on earth. Moss now represents more than the annual GDP of countries like Egypt, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Greece, Qatar and Finland.
The billion-dollar amount jumped $ 36 billion in a single day last week after Hertz announced it was buying 100,000 Tesla vehicles (-7.82%). Digital Security company co-founder Eli David noted that WFP received $ 8.2 billion in 2020, but failed to end world hunger despite Beasley’s response. WFP’s website says the required amount is still $ 5.3 billion short.
The businessman replied to Beasley in a Twitter post and said he would sell Tesla stock now and do it if the World Food Program could accurately describe how $ 6 billion of the money would end the problem of hunger on this Twitter thread.
He said on Twitter that a tax on wealth of billionaires would only put a “small dent” in paying off government debt. In 2012, Musk signed the Giving Pledge, a public pledge to give away at least half his fortune during his life or after death. Musk occasionally announces his charity work on Twitter TWTR, -0.28%, including a September announcement of a $ 50 million donation to Children’s Cancer Research.
On Tuesday’s New Day, UN Food Program director David Beasley acknowledged the controversy in which he chastised billionaires like Elon Musk for their huge fortunes by not caring for the hungry. Merkel chaired COP1 in 1995 and said the world needs to find more action, not just hot chocolate.
This week, prices rose in Europe and Asia to new records as natural gas supplies globally crashed to “alarming” levels, according to the Wall Street Journal. Although the United States is the largest natural gas producer in the world, it also competes with everyone else on the same global market.
While Tesla wants the Fremont facility to remain, Musk said there is a limit to scale you can scale in the Bay Area “, The Times reported.
