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

Re:UN responds to Musk dare with $6.6B plan to tackle world ... by tiernano on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:36AM (#29250415)

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...

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Re:UN responds to Musk dare with $6.6B plan to tackle world ... by yunohn on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @04:26AM (#29250700)

> 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

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Re:UN responds to Musk dare with $6.6B plan to tackle world ... by Tomte on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:41AM (#29250444)

"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.

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