My opinion is droughts and heat waves are complete non-issues if your nation is rich and developed enough. Brazilian heat is unbearable so I installed air conditioners. They eat up a lot of energy which is expensive so I installed so many solar panels on my roof that my house turned into a micro power plant which brought my energy bill to near zero. Droughts? Surely irrigation technology exists, maybe the government should try subsidizing its development and use instead of wasting time and money on their ceaseless corruption. Then we'd be able to farm plants even in the most arid climates imaginable. Whole point of technology is to not be at the mercy of geography and mother nature.
There are solutions for everything. It's just that people gotta pay for it. They can't pay for it if they're miserably poor. The government won't pay for it either because it's irredeemably corrupt. They fail to provide the most basic infrastructure and yet they actively get in your way if you try to do it yourself. We just can't have nice things.
I see these articles and I think: maybe if we had some actual industries in this place we'd be able to do all these things and so much more... I'd trade a million Amazons for a prosperous nation.