Planetarity, as a composed perspective wrought through ideas, facts, documents, and media, creates a predilection toward bulk figures, statistics, ratios, and comparisons—calculations that strain comprehension and bend the imagination toward cosmic scales. When it is relayed that “the number of cows on the planet exceeds 1.5 billion” or that the COVID-19 pandemic was “not as bad as it could have been,” we are leveraging and projecting planetary quantifications and qualifications. Which figures and figurations are necessary, academic, and pragmatic? At what point does the planetary scale outweigh its own usefulness as a tool for apprehension, discernment, and interpretation?