Recently, the head of WFP has urged something to the billionaires all over the world. The head of the World Food Program, this year’s conqueror of the Nobel Peace Prize, again requested billionaires to donate just a few billion to save millions of lives, saying Friday the number of people “marching toward starvation” has jumped from 135 million to 270 million since the Covid-19 pandemic. David Beasley said, “Humanity needs the help right now. This is a one-time request. The world is at a crossroads, and we need from the billionaires to step up in a way they’ve never stepped up before.”
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The executive director of the UN food agency told on a virtual UN press conference that the global wealth of some 2,200 billionaires increased by about $2 trillion between April and July as the pandemic erupted. He was referring to a study by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC published last week which said the global wealth of billionaires climbed from $8 trillion at the start of April to $10.2 trillion in July.
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“I just need a few billion to save millions of lives and save humanity from one of the greatest catastrophes since World War II,” Beasley said. “It’s not too much to ask.” Asked for names of some of the billionaires he was targeting Beasley replied: “I don’t get to hang around with that crowd. I’m hanging around people who are starving to death.” He said WFP is “greatly concerned about 2021” because budgets weren’t calculated to take into account the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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