“It’s the kind of heat that makes you feel like(那种让人感觉……的热) you’re being dehydrated(脱水的), like your skin is drying out,” said Lucas Benitez, after harvesting watermelons with his sons and wife this summer. “The heat that we had 30 years ago is not nearly the heat that we have today.”(三十年前的热，跟今天的热完全不能比。)
“那种热让你觉得自己在脱水，皮肤像在干裂，”卢卡斯·贝尼特斯今年夏天和妻儿一起收完西瓜后说道。“三十年前的热，跟今天的热完全不能比。”
This summer was the hottest on record(有记录以来) in the US, and most workers in fields, greenhouses and unconditioned(无空调的) indoor facilities still do not have heat protections on the job, putting their health at risk(使他们的健康面临风险) as the climate crisis is expected to make extreme heat more frequent and intense(强烈的、剧烈的).
今年夏天是美国有记录以来最热的夏天，而田间、温室和没有空调的室内场所的大多数工人，在工作中仍然得不到高温保护。气候危机预计会让极端高温更加频繁、更加强烈，他们的健康因此面临风险。
Benitez began working in tomato fields in Immokalee, Florida, when he was just 16, and in the early 1990s went on to help found(继而参与创建) the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)(美国佛州番茄农工维权组织), named after the major tomato growing region in south-west Florida. Today, CIW’s Fair Food Program has some of the strongest heat protections for workers in the country, and its approach is being emulate(效仿、仿效)d by other groups – in the US and beyond – as federal, state and local efforts to protect people from extreme heat stall(停滞、陷入僵局).
贝尼特斯16岁那年就开始在佛罗里达州伊莫卡利的番茄地里干活，上世纪90年代初，他又参与创建了“伊莫卡利工人联盟”（CIW），该联盟以佛罗里达西南部这片主要番茄产区命名。如今，CIW的“公平食品计划”拥有全美最强有力的工人高温保护措施之一，其做法正被美国国内乃至其他国家的团体效仿——与此同时，联邦、州和地方各级保护人们免受极端高温侵害的努力却陷入停滞。
The state-level protection route
州级保护之路
A long fight for better conditions
为改善条件而进行的长期斗争