Every economy runs on light. That is not a metaphor – it is physics.

Without light, there is no life. Without life, there is no labour. Without labour, there is no economy. Yet modern economics behaves as if energy, health, and human limits do not matter.

In this Boxing Day video – part three of my Christmas series on light – I explain why labour is transformed solar energy, why burnout is an energy failure, why infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, and why fossil fuel capitalism is about power, not necessity.

Light reconnects economics to life itself – and forces us to rethink wealth, growth, and what an economy is actually for.

At Christmas, cultures across the world speak of light returning. This is not theology or astronomy. It is about survival, hope, and responsibility in hard times.

In this video, I explore how wisdom traditions — Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Islamic, and Indigenous — understand light as care, presence, and justice. And why modern capitalism inverts that meaning, treating wealth as light and poverty as darkness.

This is the Christmas story without preaching — and with a question we cannot avoid as 2026 approaches: who do we illuminate, and who do we leave unseen?

This is the first in a six-video Christmas series exploring light not just as a festival symbol but as a political and economic necessity.

Light has always meant understanding, truth, and freedom. Darkness, by contrast, protects power and privilege.

In this video, I explore why learning is never neutral, why ignorance is often designed, and why economics that cannot be explained cannot be trusted. If democracy requires informed consent, then light is not optional; it is essential.

This channel exists to shed light on political economy. At Christmas, that feels like exactly the right place to begin.