Letters: The U.S. had nothing to gain by attending climate conference

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I’m glad the U.S. didn’t send a delegation to COP30, the two-week-long U.N. “Climate Change Conference” in Brazil this month. This costly annual event accomplishes next to nothing (other than CO2 emissions from all the private jets flying in).

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