Role of Social Media in Environmental Democracy

Introduction

The world is facing several fundamental challenges and reduction of natural resources & climate change are most important of them. The changing climate patterns are also leading to the food and water security issues across the Globe. Studies have forecasted an average global temperature increase by 1.4–5.8⁰C by end of 21^st century and this will lead to a reduction of agricultural harvest and freshwater resources (Misra, 2014). The Himalayan glaciers are on depletion and may disappear in the coming years. Furthermore, the rainfall could drop by 10% in Africa by 2050, which would cause the reduction of drain age by 17%. There has been a depletion of mainstream of freshwater resources and this has a reducing effect on the agricultural production universally, whereas the food demand via the population in increasing continuously (Turral et al., 2011). Some of the prominent climate change impacts on natural disasters are the growing deserts, floods and droughts. The prevention of Low-frequency, high-impact events such as earthquakes and tsunamis have become very difficult and there have been high osses of human life in the recent years. Table 1 has outlined the deadliest disasters of 21^st century (https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters).