--- description: Travis Rieder is an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. His new book, Catastrophe Ethics, is out on March 5. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Travis Rieder ## Travis Rieder Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Travis Rieder is an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. His new book, [_Catastrophe Ethics_](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711844/catastrophe-ethics-by-travis-rieder/), is out on March 5. ## Travis Rieder Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Mar 6, 2024 ### [How to Make Tough Choices in a Morally Exhausting World](https://time.com/6837533/catastrophe-ethics-essay/) Everything we do seems to matter. But simultaneously: nothing we do seems to matter. This is where w... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/travis-rieder/","name":"Travis Rieder"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/travis-rieder/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/travis-rieder/"},"name":"Travis Rieder","jobTitle":null,"description":"Travis Rieder is an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. His new book, Catastrophe Ethics, is out on March 5.","url":"https://time.com/author/travis-rieder/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```