New York Times: A couple of weeks ago, The Times’s Jim Yardley reported from China that the world’s last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle was living in one Chinese zoo, while the planet’s only undisputed, known giant soft-shell male turtle was living in another – and together this aging pair were the last hope of saving a species believed to be the largest freshwater turtles in the world. It struck me as I read that story that our generation has entered a phase that no previous generation …