Is COP 26 the Biggest Loss of the COP System?

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Fossil fuel companies allegedly sent more people to COP than everybody else combined. BP's just announced 200 billion quarterly increase in profits which yeah it worked very well for them. Is it plausible that something similar is going to come out COP 27 that all of the people who want us humans don't really care about anything are going to get together and we'll see another aggregated action by fossil fuel companies or do you think they've done as much as they canWell I'm not sure really I just want mine a correction by the way it's not that the fossil fuel companies at COP 26 had more people there than all the other countries combined it was that they had more peoplethere than any one

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