You might want to look at 'The Completionist' by Siobhan Adcock. It takes a near-future, climate-tinged apocalypse where water is scarce and women's fertility is catastrophically affected. The moral collapse is intimate, focusing on family, sisterhood, and the terrifying choices surrounding reproduction and survival.
The ethical questions are deeply personal and gendered in a way many post-apocalyptic books aren't. What do you owe your family versus yourself in a dying world? How far would you go to create or protect life? The societal breakdown is the stage for a claustrophobic, psychological thriller about maternal ethics pushed to the absolute brink.
How about 'The Scar' by China Miéville? While set in his secondary-world of Bas-Lag, the city of Armada is a post-apocalyptic society in its own right—a floating pirate city built from captured ships. Its morality is a constantly negotiated, pragmatic patchwork of the cultures of its constituent vessels.
The book delves deep into the ethics of a society that must be mobile and predatory to survive, exploring consensus, sacrifice, and the morality of cultural assimilation. The 'disaster' here is ongoing, and the moral framework is built to accommodate perpetual crisis. It's a masterclass in world-building as moral philosophy.
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