What Mikael Colville-Andersen thinks about energy

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Danish-Canadian urban designer, author of Copenhagenize and host of The Life-Sized City; has run urbanism and recovery projects in Ukraine from 2022.

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1. 26 Oct 2025, 08:00 UTC

   Our readingUkraine's reliance on volunteers has turned from a virtue into a system failure that is burning people out.

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   Their wordsIt’s heroic, yes. But heroism has a half-life. For three years, the country has run on unpaid labour and unmeasured compassion. The longer the war drags on, the more that volunteer energy begins to look less like virtue and more like a system failure that people are too decent to abandon.

   ↗The Anatomy of a Post-Bravery Society — The Cost of Kindnesscolvilleandersen.medium.com