The goal is to restore control over our stewardship of the environment and to embed a culture of less is more in everyday life. This means taking responsibility for how we live, cutting waste, and ensuring the environment is preserved for future generations. It also means holding governments and corporations to account for the pollution and destruction they cause, rather than allowing them to shift the burden onto individuals.
Too often they disguise failure behind taxes, levies, and forms of control, promoting a green con that enriches them while doing little to solve the problem. By challenging this and reclaiming genuine responsibility, we improve our physical health, support our mental wellbeing, and protect our spiritual balance, while building the foundations for long-term prosperity and preservation.
Most attention on the environment has centred on climate change and carbon dioxide. Yet the greater threat may be the rising toxicity of the planet. Harmful substances now permeate land, water and food: plastics, microplastics, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, fertilisers made from natural gas, genetically modified crops, pharmaceuticals, industrial solvents, flame retardants, perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS), dioxins, and synthetic dyes, among others.
Carbon dioxide, while linked to climate issues, is also one of the primary inputs for plant growth, making its overall role more complex than often presented. By contrast, toxic pollutants provide no benefit, only long-term harm to ecosystems and health.
Government prioritisation, tax breaks and grants have steered policy and funding almost entirely towards carbon, allowing corporations to exploit subsidies, shape regulations and secure insider access to government. This has created vast fortunes for a small number of individuals, while systemic environmental toxicity remains under-addressed. The result is a form of corruption and corporatism.
The environment is now a direct source of poisoning to the body. Microplastics and PFAS are present in human blood, placentas, and drinking water, with studies in 2024 showing exposure before birth. These forever chemicals accumulate over decades, damaging organs and disrupting hormones. At the same time, soil and food chains are contaminated by sewage sludge rich in plastics, by heavy metals such as lead from pipes and mercury in fish, and by waste mismanagement that leaves toxins embedded in farmland for generations. These pollutants move from air, water, and soil into the food we eat and the water we drink, steadily undermining public health and leaving people more vulnerable to chronic disease.
Corporations have taken advantage of environmental policies. They have learned to exploit environmental policy for profit, shaping rules to suit their interests while presenting themselves as “green.” Through lobbying and political donations, they influence legislation to channel subsidies and contracts into areas like carbon trading, offset schemes, biofuels, and large-scale renewables (windmills and solar panels) have allowed them to extract large profits. Energy firms and chemical producers push technologies such as carbon capture or nuclear expansion under the banner of climate responsibility, even where the long-term risks and costs outweigh the benefits.
We have a system where environmentalism is reduced to a business model, allowing the worst offenders to profit from the very crisis they often created.
Governments do not just shield corporations – they also turn the green agenda into a tool of power. By creating new industries that depend on subsidies and regulation, they expand networks of donors and supporters, since many “green” companies survive only through government contracts and permissive government regulation.
Environmental policy is also used as a lever of control over everyday life. Taxes such as Air Passenger Duty restrict how we travel, while rules on diet, energy use, and even housing standards dictate how we live under the guise of sustainability. These measures often raise government revenue without delivering real environmental benefit.
At the same time, the agenda is wrapped in ideology, promoted by activists who act as useful instruments for state and corporate interests. It is no coincidence that the strongest overlap lies between authoritarian politics and intense environmental advocacy, where the language of saving the planet becomes a justification for expanding the reach of government into every aspect of life.
The presence of toxins in our blood, food, and water requires action at the level of daily life. The Less is More philosophy begins with reducing exposure: avoid unnecessary plastics, replace non-stick pans and chemical-treated packaging with safer alternatives, and favour unprocessed food over items wrapped in layers of plastic.
By using our purchase power, we can reward companies that cut toxins from their supply chains while withdrawing support from those that continue to pollute. We can also reject the fatal conveniences – the disposable goods, chemical sprays, and processed packaging – that promise ease but quietly damage our health. Each choice reduces the build-up of poisons in the body, making a measurable difference long before governments or corporations are forced to act.
To counter corporations turning the green agenda into a profit machine, we must use purchase power deliberately – refusing to fund sham “offsets” and token schemes, while backing businesses that cut pollution at the source.
Where markets alone cannot shift behaviour, coordinated boycotts and buycotts expose greenwashing and redirect money away from the worst offenders. At the political level, PACs, litigation, and public campaigns are needed to dismantle the cosy cycle of subsidies and lobbying that allows companies to profit from failure.
The guiding principle is to strip out fatal conveniences such as meaningless carbon credits or one-use plastics marketed as “eco,” and demand genuine solutions instead. Only by cutting off the flow of money and influence can we stop corporations from treating environmental destruction as a growth opportunity.
When governments use the green agenda as a tool for revenue and control, the response must be both political and practical. Citizens can organise through PACs, legal challenges, and collective campaigns to expose the misuse of environmental policy for taxation and patronage.
At the same time, the Less is More philosophy offers independence: by consuming less, travelling more deliberately, and refusing unnecessary energy or housing “upgrades” imposed by regulation, people reduce their vulnerability to state overreach. Through coordinated boycotts of policies and industries that exist only because of subsidies, we can weaken the system of dependence that sustains both bureaucrats and their corporate allies. The aim is not to reject environmental responsibility, but to take it back from governments that use it as a pretext to expand authority into every corner of life.