Constructive reparations for climate harm follow from acknowledging its layered distributive causes

Evidence

Táíwò, in stark contrast to Yusoff’s demolition, takes the concept of the Anthropocene as an opportunity to advocate for “constructive” reparations: since “the connection between climate crisis, slavery, and colonialism flows from distributions of wealth and vulnerability created by centuries of global politics and its ecological consequences, layered with more recent histories of pollution in the Global North and corporate fossil fuel interests,” it is necessary for there to be centralized restitution that anticipates future suffering. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 315

Categorization

• XREF: Reed’s claim that anti-Blackness-as-ontology theory and theorizing inner subjectivity are ‘two sides of one anticollective coin’ could connect to the reader’s existing work on immediacy as a style — both abandon the mediating political register. — connects to: Perceived feasibility explains which historical harms are actually repaired — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 2129; Climate change converts distributive inequity into a human rights claim — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 295; Climate responsibility belongs to impersonal structure, not any individual subject — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 138