The factories were just part of the landscape(风景；地形) for Hélène Duguy growing up in(在……长大) the heart of an area known as France’s “Chemical Valley”.
对于在法国“化学谷”中心地带长大的埃莱娜·迪居伊来说，这些工厂只是风景的一部分。
“Those factories are visible(可见的) from my mother’s apartment,” says Duguy, 34, whose mother still lives in St-Genis-Laval, south of Lyon.
“从我母亲的公寓就能看到那些工厂，”34岁的迪居伊说。她的母亲仍住在里昂南部的圣热尼拉瓦勒。
Until recently, her mother did not accept that there might be any danger associated with living in close proximity to(紧邻，靠近) chemical factories. “She just trusted the municipalities(市政当局) to do their job,” Duguy says. “I think it remained something quite remote for her – she understood there was a problem, but Pfas is invisible, so it’s very hard to understand the reality of it and what it could mean for you.(我认为这对她来说仍然很遥远——她知道有问题，但PFAS看不见，所以很难理解其现实和影响。)”
直到最近，她的母亲才承认，住在化工厂附近可能存在危险。“她只是相信市政当局会尽职尽责，”迪居伊说。“我觉得这对她来说仍然是一件相当遥远的事——她知道有问题，但全氟烷基物质是看不见的，所以很难理解它的现实以及它对你可能意味着什么。”