Head in the sand; feet in the water

The Honolulu Bulletizer (aka Star Advertiser) features a story about competing designs for what may become the tallest buildings in the State. The controversy is about how high they are and what it will do to the Honolulu skyline (whatever that is). Why is nobody worried about what these buildings will stand on. The Kakaako area where these building may be built is a low-lying area and  likely to be covered in water in 2050. Raising Islands reported recently on the latest threat to dry land, the University of Hawaii has an extensive website devoted to sea level change, and a symposium on environmental disasters to be held in January 2013 features this alarming map of future Honolulu sea levels during a storm surge or tsunami

Is anybody paying attention?

I hope the lobby entrances on these these buildings include boat docks.