Framing global climate responsibility as structural accountability rather than individual guilt, avoiding the trap of moral performativity that leaves systems unchanged.
Sor Juana's writings refuse the trap of performative penance that absolves structural sin; she demands systemic change, not theatrical guilt. In climate discourse, wealthy nations and individuals often respond to climate injustice with guilt-driven consumerism—buying electric vehicles, supporting carbon offsets—while defending the fundamentally extractive systems that caused breakdown. True responsibility means different things for different actors: wealthy governments must radically decarbonize and provide climate reparations; corporations must divest from fossil fuels; wealthy nations must cease resource extraction from the Global South. This concept rejects the guilt-washing narrative where Northern consumers perform environmental virtue while systemic extraction continues. Global responsibility, through Sor Juana's lens, means structural accountability: Indigenous peoples determining land use, workers controlling transition decisions, colonized nations controlling their resources. It's not about individual moral purity but redistributing power and resources to those most harmed.
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