Approaching climate action as intentional restoration of damaged ecosystems and unjust social systems, not merely harm reduction or conservation of extraction.
Sor Juana's intellectual work was restorative: reclaiming women's intellectual dignity, asserting creole consciousness against Spanish colonial domination, and insisting on the value of knowledge systems deemed inferior by power. Climate restoration work similarly demands going beyond preservation—it requires actively repairing relationships between humans and more-than-human worlds that colonialism, slavery, and industrial capitalism have severed. This means rewilding lands, restoring watersheds, and rebuilding Indigenous governance systems over territories. Repair also addresses social wounds: reparations for communities whose territories were stolen for plantations or mines, restitution of land to Indigenous nations, and reconstruction of economic systems centered on meeting needs rather than profit. Sor Juana teaches that restoration requires cultural work—changing narratives, asserting suppressed histories, valuing denigrated knowledge. Climate justice demands material restoration (ecological healing) and epistemic restoration (honoring Indigenous science) simultaneously, rejecting incremental conservation in favor of transformative repair.
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