ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Climate change is piling on to the hazards already faced by California farm laborers — some of the country's poorest, most neglected workers. Summer days are hotter than they were a century ago in the already scorching San Joaquin Valley. The nights, when the body would normally cool down, are warming faster. Heat waves are more frequent. And across the state, fires have burned over a million acres in less than 2 weeks. Still, hundreds of thousands of men and women there continue to pluck and pack produce for the nation, as temperatures soar into the triple digits for days at a time and the air turns to a soup of dust and smoke, stirred with pollution from truck tailpipes and chemicals sprayed on the fields. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District urged residents to stay indoors. Good advice, in theory, Leonor Hernández, a mother of 3, said. “But we need to work, and if we stay indoors we don’t get paid,” she said. “We have bills for food and rent to pay.” The problem of intensifying heat underscores that issue: You work fewer hours, you make less. And for those who get paid at piece rates — wine grape pickers generally get paid by the bin — there can be a perverse incentive to work as fast as possible, even if it means skipping a water break. “It’s the price of cheap food,” said Armando Elenes, secretary-treasurer of the United Farm Workers of America, which was an advocate for heat standards in California 15 years ago after a spate of farmworker deaths. The union is pushing for similar national legislation. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photos by @brianlfrank」8月26日 7時34分