Waikiki/Waikiki
Honolulu USA
#travel [featured]
Jun 24, 2021
Bathers enter and exit the water at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii on June 24, 2021. Waikiki Beach is imperilled by sea level rise and erosion. Tourism's contribution of 25% of Hawaii's annual state income makes substantial investments in sand replenshiment worthwhile as long as the beach itself is still viable—perhaps until 2050, under current sea level rise predictions of 1.1' by 2050, per NASA's announcement in November 2022 reporting the liklihood of sea level rise exceeding previous estimates.
