Kuala Lampur, Jan. 19 -- Australia is burning. Well over 10 million hectares of it has already burned.

That is an area larger than South Korea, and over 1,000 times larger than Singapore. It really is hard to imagine devastation on this scale.

While it may seem to be happening far away, the reality is this sort of environmental destruction impacts and threatens us all.

Forests, rainforests and the oxygen they produce benefit all of us and this scale of fire means yet more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - so possibly even more warming and climate change.

Even if you remain sceptical about man-made climate change, the reality remains that humans have a significant impact on the environment and this impact is overwhelmingly bad for oth...