UN: 270 million people in the world are on the verge of starvation
UN World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley, receiving today the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to the organization, called on the world to use its wealth to fight hunger. According to him, “due to numerous wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, as well as due to a pandemic that aggravates all these problems several times, 270 million people face death from hunger”, and it is “more than the entire population of Western Europe.”
“If they are not assisted, there will be a famine pandemic that will eclipse the full impact of COVID,” Mr. Beasley said, adding that 30 million of the 270 million people are 100 percent dependent on World Food Program assistance.
According to the organization’s estimates, it needs $ 5 billion to save these 30 million lives. At the same time, as Mr. Beasley noted, “there is now $ 400 trillion of accumulated wealth in the world. Even at the height of the pandemic, “$ 2.7 trillion was amassed in just 90 days,” and only $ 5 billion is needed to save from hunger. “Please do not ask us to choose who will live and who will die … Let’s feed everyone in need,” he called.
For which the UN World Food Program received the Nobel Peace Prize – in the publication of Kommersant “For Efforts in the Fight Against Hunger”.
Alena Miklashevskaya
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