Prioritizing structural transformation of fossil fuel systems and colonial extraction over individual moral purity or consumer salvation narratives.
Sor Juana critiqued hypocrisy in religious institutions claiming moral superiority while perpetuating injustice—her work demanded systemic examination rather than individual redemption stories. Climate discourse often mirrors this: focusing on individual carbon footprints, ethical consumption, or philanthropic billionaires rather than dismantling fossil fuel infrastructure and colonial extraction. Individual actions matter but cannot substitute for systemic change. One person's sustainable choices cannot offset industrial agriculture destroying soil across continents. Individual renewable energy cannot replace ending fossil fuel subsidies and infrastructure investment. Sor Juana's intellectual rigor demands we examine root causes: Why do petrochemical corporations externalize environmental costs? Why do wealthy nations consume 80% of resources? Why do extractive industries operate on indigenous lands? Climate justice requires focusing energy on system transformation—ending fossil fuel dependence, redistributing resources, decolonizing land, establishing rights of nature—rather than seeking individual moral purity. Systemic solutions emerge from collective action targeting structural power, not from individual redemption narratives.
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