Let's Internationalize the World!

This is the transcript from an article I received by e-mail, that deeply struck me. Not as a Brazilian citizen, but as an citizen of the world. Due to the fact of the importance of such article, I googled it and found an translation into English. I thought it was important to spread the world to all. The article was published by O Globo in October 23, 2000 and was reportedly censored in some countries (according to an internet article), but broadly circulated on the internet.

This took place in a American University in May 2000. Cristovam Buarque, a Brazilian economist, politician (currently a senator) and founder of an NGO dedicated to keeping the world's poor children in school was asked by a young American ecologist about the idea of internationalization of Amazon. The ecologist said that he expected the answer of an humanist and not of a Brazilian.

( This was Buarque's answer )