• Infant feeding and the energy transition: A comparison between decarbonising breastmilk substitutes with renewable gas and achieving the global nutrition target for breastfeeding 

  Long, Aoife; Mintz-Woo, Kian; Daly, Hannah; O'Connell, Maeve; Smyth, Beatrice; Murphy, Jerry D. (Elsevier Ltd., 2021-10-04)

  Renewable gas has been proposed as a solution to decarbonise industrial processes, specifically heat demand. As part of this effort, the breast-milk substitutes industry is proposing to use renewable gas as a substitute ...
• A new defence of probability discounting 

  Mintz-Woo, Kian (Routledge, 2016-10-04)

  This chapter argues that, for decisions under risk, Simon Caney's rights-based approach overgeneralises and that rights-based theories structurally face similar problems. It makes a new moral case for probability discounting ...
• How would we know if we made a climate difference? 

  Mintz-Woo, Kian (PEA Soup, 2019-04-15)

  Broome (2019) discusses several philosophers who have denied that individual people cause harm via emissions and resultant climate change. I introduce a puzzle for these denialists: on what grounds can they claim that ...
• Survival, reproduction and health 

  Autzen, Bengt (University of Chicago Press, 2019-12)

  The article examines the relationship between a trait's effect on survival and reproduction and the notion of functional efficiency underlying the biostatistical theory of health (BST). BST faces the problem of how to ...
• 6 ways you and your family can take action now on climate change 

  Mintz-Woo, Kian (Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 2021-08-17)

  Six ways individuals can contribute to climate mitigation: reduce meat-eating, watch food waste, limit driving/flying, talk about climate with others, upgrade appliances, and donate to environmental groups.

View more