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A | 据媒体报道，夏威夷最后一棵金冠树耳蜗（Achatinella apexfulva）最近死亡，这意味着该物种也已经灭绝。    DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Three automakers, shutting down Ford's largest factory and threatening Jeep maker Stellantis.In a surprise move Wednesday night, 8,700 members left their jobs at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville.And Thursday morning, union President Shawn Fain hinted at further action against Stellantis. “Here's to hoping talks at Stellantis today are more productive than Ford yesterday,” Fain wrote on X, formerly Twitter, without saying what might happen.Ford's truck plant makes heavy-duty F-Series pickup trucks and large Ford and Lincoln SUVs, hitting the company's most lucrative products. The vehicles made at the plant generate $25 billion per year in revenue, the company said in a statement.Fain said in a statement that the union has waited long enough “but Ford hasn’t gotten the message” to bargain for a fair contract. “If they can’t understand that after four weeks, the 8,700 workers shutting down this extremely profitable plant will help them understand it,” Fain said.The strike came nearly four weeks after the union began its walkouts against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15, with one assembly plant from each company. The company, however, called the strike expansion “grossly irresponsible” and said it has made strong wage and benefit offers to the union. It said the move puts about a dozen other Ford facilities at risk, as well as parts supply plants that together employ over 100,000 people.A Ford executive said the union called a meeting at the company's Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters Wednesday afternoon where Fain asked if the company had another offer. High-ranking Ford executives responded that they are working on possibly bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW national contract, essentially making them unionized. But they didn't have a significantly different economic offer, the executive said. Fain was told the company put a strong offer on the table, but there wasn't a lot of room to increase it and keep it affordable for the business, the executive said.Fain responded by saying, if that's the company's best offer, “You just lost Kentucky Truck Plant,” said the executive. The meeting only lasted about 15 minutes, he said. In a video, Fain said the union moved because Ford didn't change its offer. “We've been very patient working with the company on this,” he said. “They have not met expectations, they're not even coming to the table on it.”The escalation against Ford shows that Fain is trying to increase pressure on the company, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University who follows labor issues.But Ford and the other automakers have made concessions and raised wage offers, he said. The companies, he said, “may have reached their resistance points to varying degrees.” Executives, he said, have bottom line positions they can’t cross in terms of staying competitive with other automakers.Fain, Masters said, likely is testing how far he needs to push Ford before going to “full throttle,” by taking all 57,000 Ford members out on strike.The union’s move doesn’t leave him optimistic for a quick end to the strikes, Masters said. “I think the issues that remain on the table are quite thorny,” he said, pointing to union demands that all workers get defined benefit pensions and health insurance when they retire.The UAW expanded its strikes on Sept. 22, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts warehouses. Assembly plants from Ford and GM were added the week after that. The Kentucky strike brings to 33,700 the number of workers on strike against the three automakers.Thus far, the union has decided to target a small number of plants from each company rather than have all 146,000 UAW members at the automakers go on strike at the same time.Last week, the union reported progress in the talks and decided not to add any more plants. This came after GM agreed to bring joint-venture electric vehicle battery factories into the national master contract, almost assuring that the plants will be unionized.Battery plants are a major point of contention in the negotiations. The UAW wants those plants to be unionized to assure jobs and top wages for workers who will be displaced by the industry’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles.Since the start of the strike, the three Detroit automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the UAW strikes.The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs. They note that the job cuts have occurred mainly at factories that make parts for assembly plants that were closed by strikes.The UAW rejects that argument. It contends that the layoffs are unjustified and were imposed as part of the companies' pressure campaign to persuade UAW members to accept less in negotiations with automakers. The factories affected by layoffs are in six states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana and New York. Sam Fiorani, an analyst with AutoForecast Solutions, a consulting firm, said he thinks the layoffs reflect a simple reality: The automakers are losing money because of the strikes. By slowing or idling factories that are running below their capacities because of strike-related parts shortages, Fiorani said, the companies can mitigate further losses.“It doesn’t make sense to keep running at 30% or 40% of capacity when it normally runs at 100%,” he said. Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund. In some states, laid-off workers could qualify for state unemployment aid, which, depending on a variety of circumstances, could be less or more than $500 a week. Fiorani said that as the strikes widen, more workers will likely be laid off at non-striking plants. Separate companies that manufacture parts for the automakers are likely to have laid off workers but might not report them publicly, said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group in Lansing, Michigan. A survey of parts supply companies by a trade association called MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers found that 30% of members have laid off workers and that more than 60% expect to start layoffs in mid-October.。据报道，这只名叫“乔治”的夏威夷树蜗牛于今年1月1日死亡，享年14岁。14年来，“乔治”没有找到配偶，“乔治”的死意味着我们目睹了另一个物种的灭绝。夏威夷树蜗牛最明显的特征之一是蜗牛壳顶部的金黄色区域。

B | 该物种最初分布在夏威夷群岛的瓦胡岛上。它在夏威夷的繁荣时期非常丰富。1995年以后，夏威夷蜗牛在外来蜗牛的入侵下几乎灭绝。

C | 维基百科的图片显示，人口减少的主要原因之一是“玫瑰卷”（玫瑰橡实蜗牛），一种中等大小的蜗牛，属于橡实蜗牛属，原产于美国。本种是捕食其他蜗牛的食肉动物。玫瑰卷之所以被引进，是因为它想控制入侵非洲蜗牛的数量，但没有考虑。夏威夷蜗牛濒临灭绝。

D | 这就是为什么夏威夷至少有8种当地蜗牛灭绝的原因。1997年，最后10只蜗牛被送到夏威夷大学的实验室进行人工繁殖，但最终，除了乔治以外，所有的蜗牛都死了。在此之前，国际自然保护联盟（IUCN）已将该物种列为极度濒危物种。据了解，科学家们已经提取出“乔治”身体组织用于制冷，期待有一天“复活”乔治。一些灭绝物种（百科全书）：1681年的渡渡鸟灭绝；1768年的海牛灭绝；1800年的恐怖鸟类和蓝马羚羊灭绝；1844年的海鸟灭绝；1875年的南极狼灭绝（生活在地球最南端的犬科动物）；1880年的美国缅因州黄鼠狼灭绝；1880年的牙买加仓鼠灭绝（关于区域性灭绝；3年内灭绝；1890年澳大利亚兔子灭绝；1900年昆士兰毛鼻袋熊区域性灭绝；1900年圣诞岛虎头鼠灭绝；1901年艾米旱獭灭绝；1902年澳大利亚白足旱獭灭绝；1903年加利福尼亚南部猫和狐狸灭绝。利福尼亚；1910年西部袋鼠灭绝；东部袋鼠灭绝；1911年白狼绝对灭绝（唯一的纯白狼）；1918年卡罗莱纳鹦鹉灭绝（北美鸽子）；1914年（十亿不到一个世纪）；1915年基奈山狼灭绝（最大的狼亚种）；佛罗里达黑狼1917年灭绝的狼；1920年灭绝的新墨西哥狼；1922年灭绝的野蛮狮；1922年灭绝的中国犀牛（区域灭绝）；1926年澳大利亚海豚脚袋鼠灭绝；1927年澳大利亚袋鼠灭绝；1930年澳大利亚大兔袋鼠灭绝；灭绝1930年的新南威尔士白袋鼠；1937年的巴厘虎灭绝（最小的虎亚种）；1948年的印度亚洲猎豹灭绝（区域灭绝）；1950年的喀斯喀特棕狼灭绝；墨西哥灰熊绝对灭绝；1970年的德克萨斯红狼灭绝；台湾云豹灭绝1983年；1987年危地马拉鹦鹉灭绝；1997年左右欧亚貂灭绝。

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