tute sees the most potential for positive influence on resolving the conflict between economy and environment. Wood, Demko, and Mofson (1989) note the difficulties inherent in a global policy of ecological management, citing the "ecopolitical" tensions likely to arise as the environmental conscience of environmental activists in long-industrialized nations encounters the desire of developing countries to exploit resources and their own sovereignty. What developed countries may see as prudent exploitation of natural resources, developing countries may see as superpower efforts to keep them in a state of oppression. Yet there are rays of hope. In this connection, Mitchell (1980) suggests that to the degree the international community has acknowledged the record of environmental confrontation and despoliation in the bulk of the developed world, there has been an "almost unprecedented" (p. 41) willingness to cooperate with regard to the resource development, investigation, and collaboration that may occur in remote Antarctica. Both superpower interes
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