Green and pleasant
GEORGE BUSH could take lessons from John Major in the art of looking green and pleasant. It was all they had to do when in Rio for the Earth Summit, but it is not the President's style, and it has embarrassed him in front of his own electorate — now thoroughly worked up about the environ- ment, and convinced that others should pay to do something about it. Now in the frame are the banks, those unlikely polluters put there by an eccentric ruling by a judge who, appointed by President Truman, is past his judge-by-date. It is wonderful news for the United States' least productive pro- fession, which has found a new way to make money at the general expense. You can now be (I have met one) an environmental lawyer — something which I would have thought was a contradiction in terms.
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