Laurie Zoloth holds the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics Chair at the University of Chicago. She is the past president of the American Academy of Religion and of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her teaching and research in bioethics and has served on international ethics advisory boards for NASA, the NIH, HHMI, and the CDC. She is the author of nine books and over 200 articles.

• Introduction: Lightning from a Distant Storm


• Chapter 1. The Coming Storm: An Introduction to our Situation


• Chapter 2. The Promises of Exile: Diaspora as Ontology


• Chapter 3. Making a Place: Lisbon and the Narrative of Disaster


• Chapter 4. Risky Hospitality: Ordinal Ethics and the Duties of Abundance


• Chapter 5. At the Last Well on Earth: Climate Change as a Feminist Issue


• Chapter 6. Strangers on the Train: Moral Luck and Problem of Responsibility


• Chapter 7. Bad Guys: Amalek and the Production of Doubt


• Chapter 8. You Must Interrupt Your Life


• Chapter 9. Conclusion

In Ethics for the Coming Storm, Laurie Zoloth argues that our debates about environmental issues have largely been driven by the language of economics and political power, and have become both deeply divisive and symbolic, turning our differing truth claims and moral appeals into signs of identity. This discourse has utterly failed to change the human behavior or political and economic structures necessary to face global warming head on. So Zoloth turns to another language, found in the texts and traditions of Jewish thought--the language of Scripture, the Talmud, and philosophy of Judaism--which, she contends, offers a different kind of argument for such a change.