Suzanne Harrington: Dear Elon Musk, isn’t there better things to do with €44 billion?

For $44 billion, you could fund the global starving, but no, he decides to buy Twitter, an online micro-blogging site famed for its toxic discourse

What could you do with $44bn? Well, loads, actually. $44 billion exceeds the GDP of 104 of the world’s 190 economies.

So if you had $44bn to spend you could – off the top of my head – fund clean energy production, fund research into clean energy, fund those affected by the transition away from unclean energy (like coal miners, oil workers), fund the distribution of energy-efficient devices like heat pumps (to places like Ukraine and anywhere else reliant on Russian gas).