{"id":76030,"date":"2021-06-30T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=76030"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:23:49","slug":"beasley-calls-on-branson-musk-and-bezos-for-6-billion-to-end-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2021\/06\/30\/beasley-calls-on-branson-musk-and-bezos-for-6-billion-to-end-starvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Beasley Calls on Branson, Musk, and Bezos for $6 Billion To End Starvation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the weekend, World Food Program Director David Beasley sent out a tweet, reiterating his frequent call on billionaires to step up to meet the $6 billion more needed this year to roll back hunger and prevent starvation. But this time he named names. He included in his tweet the June 26 CNN video story, &#8220;Bezos vs. Branson: Billionaires Battle Over Being First in Space.&#8221; Beasley tweeted June 26:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;Hey, Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, so excited to see you compete on who gets to space first! BUT, I would love to see you TEAM up together to save the 41 million people who are about to starve this year on Earth! It only takes $6 billion. We can solve this quickly!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The financial worth of these three, according to Global Citizen: Branson, $6.3 billion; Musk, $165.9 billion; and Bezos $192.6 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, World Food Program Director David Beasley sent out a tweet, reiterating his frequent call on billionaires to step up to meet the $6 billion more needed this year to roll back hunger and prevent starvation. But this time he named names. He included in his tweet the June 26 CNN video story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":76031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,40,505,702,704],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-76030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-allgemein-el","category-updates","category-healthcare-updates-development","category-world-food-program","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76041,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76030\/revisions\/76041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}