Half a Billion Animals Are Dead in Australia. This Horrific Video Shows What That Looks Like.

One of the first great spasms of man-made ecological disaster is underway. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       480 Million Animals Are Dead in the Australian Wildfires. This Horrific Video Gets at What That Looks Like.   While the United States president continually issues threats of various kinds—ALL CAPS, war crimes, what appears to be a Baby Boomer Facebook status—there are events unfolding on the other side of the world that make him look especially small. War with Iran on its own would be an indefensible world-historical disaster, but another nightmare of human history has long since begun. The images emerging from Australia, a continent that has been on fire for months, seem to document one of the first great spasms of an ecology thrown out of balance. The skies have turned blood red. The smoke is descending on cities and billowing out to sea. More than 200 fires are burning at the time of this writing, and an area the size of West Virginia—about 23,000 square miles—has already burned. At least 24 people are dead. Read More           Where to Buy Our Favorite Sunglasses From the Golden Globes Red Carpet   There were a lot of sunglasses on the Golden Globes red carpet this year. There were a lot of sunglasses during the actual ceremony, for that matter. While we can't quite explain the latter situation—everyone wanted to see if they've got enough of a Jack Nicholson/Cory Feldman vibe to make it work?—we can always endorse the wearing of good sunglasses when the sun is actually shining. And thanks to the influx of eyewear, there were some seriously stylish shades on display. Here are five of our favorites, and where to buy them right now. Read More           Meet Scout by Warby Parker   In Partnership with Warby Parker   Comfortable, breathable, and affordable daily contacts. Read More           Baby Yoda Has a Name, and It Isn't Baby Yoda   Nearly two months ago, a child came into our lives. And we haven't been the same since. It's nearly legend at this point: The last few moments of The Mandalorian's premiere, when the hero finds the target he was looking for the entire episode—and it turns out it's an adorable little elf creature, clearly of the same species of the backward-speaking Yoda from the original Star Wars trilogy. Baby Yoda! we dubbed the little guy. Read More           Ricky Gervais Gave Zero Fucks at the Golden Globes. At Least the Stars Who Showed Up Gave a Few.   The Golden Globes is always a strange night. It's always a broadcast in search of a tone and always a little less irreverent than it gives itself credit for being. Tonight, while Ricky Gervais behaved like there was still air to take out of an awards ceremony, he played it largely safe and let the winners take the real risks with daring speeches, bold statements, and sunglasses right out of Pee-Wee's Playhouse. It was predictable, it was not as long as it felt, and NBC didn't do the thing where they change the lyrics of a popular song to reflect the night's nominees, which is a real loss. Read More           Mike Pompeo Fed the Rats in the President*'s Brain to Get What He Wanted   The Washington Post dives deeply into what is laughingly called the administration*'s "process" leading up to the decision to kill Qasem Soleimani with fire last week. In short, all the "imminent threat" palaver was pure moonshine. According to the Post, this particular catastrophe was brewed up for a while amid the stalactites in the mind of Mike Pompeo, a Secretary of State who makes Henry Kissinger look like Gandhi. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019