This article discusses how Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater because of climate change. Lawmakers are fighting to preserve it. If recent climate reports about Hawaii are true, the Democratic legislator said, after she finishes high school, she may not be able to lie in the sun on Waikiki Beach the way generations before her could.
He’s co-sponsor of a bill that responds to a 2017 Hawaii Climate Commission report that argues Oahu’s famed beaches at Waikiki are in danger of being underwater in the next 15-20 years due to rising sea levels.