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UN responds to Musk dare with $6.6B plan to tackle world hunger

8 points by dane-pgp 5y ago

taxyz23 5y ago
Other people's money.
dane-pgp 5y ago
The UN's "one-time appeal to billionaires"[0] seems like it has sensible goals, and it includes about 10% devoted to "design, scale up and manage the implementation of efficient and effective programmes". Hopefully they want to be agile, rather than commit up front to a rigid plan. [0] https://www.wfp.org/appeal-billionaires-famine https://www.wfp.org/appeal-billionaires-famine
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tiernano 5y ago
Am.i missing something? Solve world hunger sounded like a one and done deal... This is sounding like a once a year deal... Distribution of food to the end user is mostly the plan... That's sounds very much like the giv man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life... It sounded like musk was thinking the second, not the first...
- Tomte 5y ago
  "Tackle", not "solve". If you're thinking about earlier reporting that wrote about "solving", that was a mistake. The UN never claimed that a one time donation could eradicate hunger once and for all. It was just an overeager headline by CNN, that Elon Musk read and took for real.
- yunohn 5y ago
  > Solve world hunger sounded like a one and done deal This view is incredibly naive. Despite what FUD the media might’ve spread, it is not a rational conclusion. > That's sounds very much like the giv man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life. World hunger is caused by innumerable systemic problems - but definitely not because the hungry person “doesn’t know how to fish”. For example, in the USA itself, 1 out of 6 people are food insecure (1). (1) https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness
GrumpyNl 5y ago
Give them food and they keep asking for food. Better create the possibilities to grow their food.
- yunohn 5y ago
  > they keep asking for food Who are “they”? Are you maybe falsely assuming that world hunger is specifically “developing country” hunger? In the USA, 1 out of 6 people are food insecure (1). I’m also fairly certain that most people in most countries are not aware of how to grow their own food. World hunger is caused by numerous systemic issues, not the lack of farming abilities. (1) https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness
- Tomte 5y ago
  Sure, as long as we don't care about the people starving today. A small price (not for us) to pay, right?

8 points by dane-pgp 5y ago

Other people's money.

The UN's "one-time appeal to billionaires"[0] seems like it has sensible goals, and it includes about 10% devoted to "design, scale up and manage the implementation of efficient and effective programmes". Hopefully they want to be agile, rather than commit up front to a rigid plan. [0] https://www.wfp.org/appeal-billionaires-famine https://www.wfp.org/appeal-billionaires-famine

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tiernano 5y ago

Am.i missing something? Solve world hunger sounded like a one and done deal... This is sounding like a once a year deal... Distribution of food to the end user is mostly the plan... That's sounds very much like the giv man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life... It sounded like musk was thinking the second, not the first...

Tomte 5y ago
"Tackle", not "solve". If you're thinking about earlier reporting that wrote about "solving", that was a mistake. The UN never claimed that a one time donation could eradicate hunger once and for all. It was just an overeager headline by CNN, that Elon Musk read and took for real.
yunohn 5y ago
> Solve world hunger sounded like a one and done deal This view is incredibly naive. Despite what FUD the media might’ve spread, it is not a rational conclusion. > That's sounds very much like the giv man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for life. World hunger is caused by innumerable systemic problems - but definitely not because the hungry person “doesn’t know how to fish”. For example, in the USA itself, 1 out of 6 people are food insecure (1). (1) https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness

GrumpyNl 5y ago

Give them food and they keep asking for food. Better create the possibilities to grow their food.

yunohn 5y ago
> they keep asking for food Who are “they”? Are you maybe falsely assuming that world hunger is specifically “developing country” hunger? In the USA, 1 out of 6 people are food insecure (1). I’m also fairly certain that most people in most countries are not aware of how to grow their own food. World hunger is caused by numerous systemic issues, not the lack of farming abilities. (1) https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness
Tomte 5y ago
Sure, as long as we don't care about the people starving today. A small price (not for us) to pay, right?