This phrasing is so weaselly you baited me into fact-checking it. Congratulations!
on track to
meaning it's crediting Biden with things that haven't happened yet? I didn't investigate how many future acres he needs to make this meme true.
more land ... first-term persident
The Pacific Remote Islands are much larger, but mostly water. Created by Dubya, expanded by Obama, both times in their respective second terms.
modern
Personally, I'd have counted Carter as modern. His Alaska Conservation Act weighed in at 157 million acres. I think that one got Congressional approval too, so maybe they're only counting land protected by executive fiat.
While more land is protected, he's still approved roughly the same number of drilling permits, and the US is now producing more oil than any country in history, despite promises to stop drilling on federal land.
wont stop me from doing it myself.
Fuck your precious metals, land is even better.
must have something to do with that carbon tax thing. Basically you can credit money to your country if you have assets that reduce carbon dioxide, making it incentivizing to keep forrests.
"Protected more" is a meaningless metric. The threat of destruction is not eliminated with a one-time response, but they're acting like it is.
I could get the same results by saying "I hereby threaten the entire planet with destruction unless I get a soda in the next few minutes."
"Oh, I got one? I guess that means I saved the planet."
