He employed a scorched-earth policy, destroying villages and burning crops.
他采取了焦土政策，摧毁村庄并烧掉了庄稼。
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Earth was already in one of its warm interglacial periods when we started burning fossil fuels.
当我们开始使用化石燃料时，地球已经处于温暖的间冰期之一。
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Our main fossil fuels — coal, petroleum and gasoline — are made up of carbon that has been compressed in the Earth for millions of years and we're now burning and rapidly restoring to the atmosphere.