How Climate Change is Causing World Hunger: Global Warming is increasing natural disasters

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The effects of climate change visible and tangible all over the world. One of the most drastic effects is global hunger.
As the earth gets hotter, it creates more frequent and more intense weather events such as droughts, floods, fires, and hurricanes. These natural disasters displace people from their homes. They destroy food systems and disrupt regular weather patterns. Climate disasters affect the poorest communities the most, such as an increase in food prices, loss of property and possessions, and the inability to grow their own food. The result is extreme hunger.
When extreme weather events occur, storms destroy vital infrastructure like roads and bridges, which makes it extremely difficult for aid agencies to distribute food to hungry families. For remote communities that rely on a single road, local food supply chains can shut down, making hunger even worse.
Climate related disasters can wipe out farmland and destroy entire harvests. Local water supplies often become contaminated too, harming the health of the people, livestock and fisheries. Recurring floods or droughts degrade the soil over time, degrading arable land, which reduces both the amount and the quality of the food that can be grown. After disasters like these, it can take a long time for agricultural production to recover.
The countries and communities that contribute the least to the climate crisis are suffering the most. People who are already struggling with hunger, a lack of resources, and poor infrastructure quickly lose what little security they had. As climate change increases the frequency of these disasters, vulnerable communities don't have enough time to rebuild before the next one hits.
The climate crisis also fuels other crises, like economic volatility. When disasters wipe out crops and livestock, food prices go up. For families who are living below the poverty line, even the slightest inflation can make basic necessities unaffordable. They then have to make difficult decisions just to survive, whether that means selling their remaining livestock or taking their kids out of school to save money.
Climate disasters can lead to regional instability as people compete over scarce resources. Conflict can erupt, making food even harder to access, which can cause mass migration. Population shifts like these can destabilize entire regions and put a strain on neighboring countries, further increasing the potential for more conflict and hunger.
Combating the causes of global warming may take decades, but the effects of these weather extremes are devastating communities now. Disadvantaged communities urgently need solutions to build their resilience to extreme weather events. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provides emergency food supplies to people in the immediate aftermath of climate related disasters. Then, once the crisis subsides, WFP gets to work helping communities build infrastructure that can protect them against future disasters. WFP teaches participants new skills such as engineering and biodiverse farming, which help preserve their land.
The climate crisis isn't a problem in the distant future. It's affecting people's lives today. And as the temperature rises, so does hunger.
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0:00 Global Warming is Increasing World Hunger
0:50 Poor Communities are Most Vulnerable Climate Disasters
2:50 Climate Crisis Fuels Other Crises
3:52 Solutions For Climate Resilience

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Unreliable reporting. How about America's role in global hunger??