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"His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."

from Angel of History by Walter Benjamin

 

 

2007

2099

Scientifical research shows that sea level approximately 1 meter above the present could be reached by the end of the 21st century. The above projection shows how this rise will impact Waikiki. (see more of Chip Fletcher's research)

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