Future will be the one we make now

I am very excited about my first trip to Brazil, partly because I can finally practice the Portuguese I have been studying for the past few months.

Of course, Brazil is more than just the language. To me, it is the country of samba, soccer and Corcovado, with its giant statue of Jesus. A land of abundant resources, fertile land and the Amazon; a land of the future as Austrian author Stefan Zweig called it.

The South American nation, the fifth largest country in the world, has much of what the rest of the world needs for a sustainable future.