Tony Robbins
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But the problem hasn't gone away.
And so now I hooked up with Governor Beasley when I was in the UAE.
He introduced me to Governor Beasley, MBZ did.
And he explained to me that
He ran the World Food Program.
Yes, he won the Nobel Prize for that.
And he said, I want you to meet the only guy I know that's feeding more people than you.
I said, he's being a lot more than I am at the UN.
But we sat down and we became friends.
And now I said to him, normally 80 million people a year are at risk of dying.
This year it's 385 million because of the war in Ukraine.
It is the breadbasket for most of Africa.
And there are 11 countries near famine right now.
You don't read about it in the news because you're reading about something on somebody's knuckles, right?
And I said to him, well, and then there's not enough fertilizer because Russia's been cut off and it made the price triple and farmers can't afford it.
So I said, we need a period of time to get sustainability.
10 years, let's say.
How many meals would we need in the meantime just to close the gap?
He said, Tony, 50, 60, maybe 70 billion meals.
So I said, why don't we do a 100 billion meals challenge?