The comparatively mild effects of the northern California earthquake in 1989 are good evidence that we do have the technology to prevent vast destruction.

1989年北加州地震造成的影响相对较轻，这充分证明我们确实拥有防止大规模破坏的技术。

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Indeed, my reading of the evidence did not sustain a portrayal of unrestrained destruction even of property.

事实上，我见到的证据并甚至也不支持肆无忌惮地破坏财产的说法。

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That restriction became hard to justify as evidence mounted that the destruction of tropical forests caused as much as 20% of heat-trapping greenhouse emissions.

不过，此限制却已不太合理，因为越来越多的证据表明：高达20%的温室气体排放量由毁林引发。

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And why the claim of the utter destruction of the Canaanites when evidence points to close Canaanite origins? This practice, which I mentioned before and is known as herem or the ban, is not unique to Israel. I know some of you have studied it in sections you looked at the inscription of King Mesha, King Mesha of Moab.

那为何要声称迦南彻底的毁灭呢？,当证据指出了迦南的起源，这一习俗，也就是我之前提到的禁忌或祭祀，并不是以色列独有的，我想你们也已经学过,你们看摩押米沙王的题词，摩押的米沙王。

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