For EXAMPLE, LEAD paint in old HOUSES can be a GREATER THREAT to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

Transnational, gigantic industrial COMPANIES no LONGER operate WITHIN POLITICAL SYSTEMS, but rather above them.

It is RATHER hard to be ACCUSED of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of LABOUR and industrial pursuits to us.

But with the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION and introduction of VARIOUS industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not GOOD nutritionally or ecologically.

To understand the HIDDEN secret of the modern industrial world in which I FIND myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once WARTIME Nice and the PLANTATION - the SUGAR isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

Without the POWER of the INDUSTRIAL UNION behind it, Democracy can only enter the STATE as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

Dealing with ENVIRONMENTAL lawsuits and grassroots resistance is EXPENSIVE. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and scientists WILLING to testify that this or that project poses only a modest threat to endangered birds and BATS.

Listen to the great guitarists of the FIFTIES. They didn't do that nasty SORT of INDUSTRIAL distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a BAD note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.

From zoning to labor to FOOD safety to insurance, local food SYSTEMS daily FACE a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to POLICE industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

Instead of buying into the global AGENDA, which is using FOOD as just industrial STUFF, we would say we VIEW food as biological, a living thing, that BELONGS in smaller communities.

It is ESSENTIAL to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even DRIVE greater innovation, not only for SHORT-TERM BENEFITS and solutions for human wealth but also long-term solutions that benefit all and enable planetary STABILITY.

I ENJOY gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I GO down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite PLACES to PLAY.