Professor Naomi Zack’s latest book, Ethics for Disaster, published by Rowman & Littlefield, addresses the moral aspects of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, plane crashes, Avian Flu pandemics, and other disasters of our times. Moral systems of Consequentialism, Deontology, and Virtue ethics are applied to real life and fictional catastrophes. Zack argues for better preparation by both citizens and government, so that normal moral principles can be upheld in disasters. Both social contract and dignitarian foundations of government are related to disaster. The ways disaster magnifies the disadvantages of nonwhites, poor, elderly and disabled victims is addressed. Readers are invited to rethink the distinction between risk in normal times and disaster and consider a needs-based approach to current global problems such as the global water crisis, before they become disasters.