How Does Climate change fuels drought, starvation worldwide | DW News Work?

Climate change is like a big, growing fire that makes droughts and hunger happen more often around the world.

Imagine Earth is like a giant kitchen, and climate change is like turning up the heat on the stove too much. When it gets too hot, there’s not enough rain to water plants, that's like a drought. Without enough rain, crops don’t grow well, so people don't have enough food, that's how we get starvation.

Think of droughts as when the ground gets really thirsty. If Earth is too hot for too long, it’s like leaving your favorite plant in the sun without water, eventually, it wilts and dies. This happens more often now because climate change makes the weather more extreme.

When plants don’t grow well, people can't harvest food. It's like if you forgot to feed your pet, after a while, they get hungry too. That’s what happens in places where there are not enough crops: people starve because they don’t have enough food.

So, climate change is making the world hotter and drier, which leads to less food, that's why more people are facing droughts and hunger now than before.