It is difficult not to be overcome by feelings of nostalgia when one contemplates the sorry plight of the mighty Mekong river as it wends its way on its 3000 mile journey through portions of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Where once its banks echoed to the laughter and fun of 24-hour, gold-domed casinos and fun palaces, they are now full of villagers bathing disconsolately, surrounded by basketfuls of fish and picking at so-called jungle "delicacies". One sometimes wonders what the man who first explored the Mekong or Mékon - Dan Dare - would make of it all if he were still being published today.
And what ever happened to the rolling farm lands of Brazil, once a garden of Eden where sheep might safely graze, but now a monotonous mass of rain forests teeming with reptiles and insects?
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