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She and the others drying shrimp on the road were doubly angry that the new plant would need a new port,
她和其他也在馬路上曬蝦的人更加憤怒的是新工廠還需要一個新港口，
and that would displace their husbands, who tie up their fishing boats there.
她們的丈夫就會失業，因為他們的漁船還停在港口。
Trucks rumbled by, throwing up dust, as the women emptied their baskets of shrimp.
卡車吐著滾滾灰塵從旁邊咆哮而過時，女人們正倒空蝦籃里的蝦。
They kept every bit of themselves covered: wide brimmed hats, face masks, gloves.
她們個個都用寬邊帽，面罩，手套將自己裹得嚴嚴實實。
Coal accounts for 36 percent of the country’s power generation capacity now;
目前，燃煤發電占到了越南總發電量的36％；
it is projected to grow to 42 percent by 2030, according to the government.
預計到2030年還將增長至42％，據政府表示。
To feed those plants, Vietnam will need to import 90 million tons of coal by 2030.
為了供應這些煤電廠，到2030年，越南將需要進口9000萬噸煤炭。
But coal projects are also sparking community opposition rare in a country that squelches dissent.
然而，煤炭項目還是引發了民眾的反對，盡管越南是一個壓制不同意見的國家。
Villagers blocked a highway in 2015 to protest a Chinese project in the southeast.
2015年，村民就封鎖了一條高速公路，抗議中國在越南東南部興建的一個項目。
The provincial authorities quashed another proposed plant in the Mekong Delta.
地方當局還否決了湄公河三角洲的另一個工廠提案。
Most plants in Vietnam use old, polluting technologies
越南大多數工廠使用的都是老舊而污染嚴重的技術，
that many investors, including Marubeni, have recently promised not to back in future projects.
許多投資者，包括丸紅，最近紛紛承諾在未來的項目中不再對這類技術予以支持。
A company spokesman said by email that it would continue with the Nghi Son project “to contribute to stable power supply and to economic growth.”
某公司發言人通過郵件表示，其公司會繼續做儀山工業區的項目“以穩定電力供應，維持經濟增長。”
Vietnam says it is on track to meet its emissions reductions targets under the Paris accord.
越南表示，自己有望實現根據《巴黎協議》制定的減排目標。
So, too, China and India, with far bigger carbon footprints.
碳足跡遠超越南的中國和印度也做出了同樣的表態。
But those targets were set by the countries themselves,
然而，這些目標都是各國自己制定的，
and they will not be enough to keep global temperatures from rising to calamitous levels.
且并不足以防止全球氣溫上升到災難性水平。
The United States has said it will exit the Paris climate pact.
美國表示自己將退出《巴黎氣候協定》。
Those sobering facts loom over the next round of international climate negotiations, starting Dec. 3 in the heart of Poland’s coal country.
這些發人深省的事實不免給從12月3日開始將在波蘭煤炭鄉村的核心地帶召開的下一輪國際氣候談判籠罩了一層陰影。
The American delegation plans to promote coal at the event, just as it did at last year’s talks in Bonn, Germany.
正如去年在德國波恩舉行的會談一樣，美國代表團計劃在此次活動中繼續推廣煤炭。
In the public imagination, the coal miner has long been a symbol of industrial virility,
在公眾的想象中，煤礦工人長期以來一直是工業男子氣概的象征，
a throwback to an era when hard labor — particularly men’s labor, rather than robots — fueled economic growth.
是回歸人力勞動——特別是男人的勞動而不是機器人——推動經濟增長的時代。
That idea has been central to politics.
而這一理念也是政治的核心內容。
German coal miners have lifted the fortunes of that country’s far-right party.
德國的煤礦工人就改變了該國極右翼政黨的命運。
Poland’s right-wing government has promised to open new coal mines.
波蘭的右翼政府也已承諾開設新的煤礦廠。
Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, rose to power as a champion of coal.
澳大利亞總理斯科特·莫里森也是作為煤炭冠軍登上政治舞臺的。
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