I don't think it's possible to end hunger by 2030 with the conflicts. I do believe, as I said earlier, that if we can end most of these conflicts, I have no doubt we can end world hunger. Consider that 200 years ago, 95% of the people on the planet were in extreme poverty. We've reduced that now to below 10%. The progress that has been made in the last 50 years is just absolutely wonderful, but now for the first time we're going in the wrong direction. As I mentioned at the outset of my talk, chronic hunger for the first time is going up from 650 million to 810 million. Severe food insecurity is going from 80 million to now about 300 million. We're going in the wrong direction, and almost all of that is due to manmade conflict. If we could end that, even with climate change, I believe we would have the ability and the expertise, especially when there's $430 trillion of wealth on the planet, to address hunger. There's no reason why any child on the planet should go to bed hungry today with all of the wealth we have. We need to end these wars so we can have the money and the access we need, and more people are going to have to step up at a time like this. If they don't, as I said earlier, we're going to pay for it a thousand times otherwise.
On April 4th, 2022. See this statement in context.