In the fall of 1863, two families pushed into the northern edge of Bear Lake Valley, quickly built a log cabin with a dirt floor and then hunkered(蹲下) down to endure the brutal winter.
The settlers had big plans. They wanted to start farms and establish a village with a grand church at its center. As years passed and more people arrived, they decided to name their new village for the man who plotted it, Frederick Perris, but to spell it differently — ambitiously—in honor of a faraway urban ideal.
Yet, just as they were arriving, the world was starting to change. The relentlessly upward arc of carbon emissions(排放) that cause climate change was fully underway, fueled by industrialization.
Now world leaders are meeting in the other Paris to try to forge a historic agreement to reduce carbon emissions. And this Paris, despite the miniature Eiffel Towers displayed in the few surviving store fronts, may never have seemed so far away.
“Oh, I can hardly watch it,” Dave Kramer, the general manager of a new phosphate(磷酸盐) mine under development here, said of the global climate talks. “It makes me laugh because it’s just so silly.”
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