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Paul Souders/Getty Images The lonely George, the last turtle on Pinta, passed away in 2012 and left no descendants. His loneliness was imposed on him by humans who killed the rest of his species, took goats to his island in the Galapagos, and destroyed their habitat. But the lonely George probably didn’t really care about

Indonesian plastic collection facilityJuni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images In 2022, the world dumped about 268 million tons of plastic waste, but 14% of that (approximately 38…