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Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice projecteither rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present or they focus on the past emphasizing restitution for historical wrongs Olfmi O Tw argues that neither approach is optimal and advances a different case for reparationsone rooted in a hopeful future that tackles the issue of climate change head on with distributive justice at its core This view which he calls the constructive view of reparations argues that reparations should be seen as a futureoriented project engaged in building a better social order and that the costs of building a more equitable world should be distributed more to those who have inherited the moral liabilities of past injustices