 Arguments as developed in the ongoing debates on (the foundations of) intergenerational justice can help to justify several obligations of currently living people vis-à-vis future people and towards past people. Currently living people are obliged (i) not to violate the rights of future generations  (§2)  and (ii) (at least some presently living people might well be  obliged)[23]  to provide compensation to contemporaries with respect to harms victims in the past suffered at the hands of past perpetrators  (§5).