Humans see just 4.7km into the distance. So how can we truly understand what the bushfires destroyed?
- Written by Nanda Jarosz, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
Jamie PittockWhen the ashes from Australia’s last bushfire season cooled, we were left with a few mind-boggling numbers: 34 human lives lost, more than a billion animals dead, and 18.6 million hectares of land burned.
But those figures don’t necessarily help us understand what was lost. The human mind struggles to grasp very large...





