Fevered and Tarrant et al

As part of an Environment and Natural Resources class integrated with travel to Slovakia, we had to read various journals related to global travel as well as a book, "Fevered", by Linda Marsa. The specific journal that we read discussed the benefits of global travel to what the author referred to as a "global citizenship" in which one feels obligated to the health of others via their ecological footprint. I thought that this idea of feeling more connected and thus more responsible for others by traveling globally was a really cool idea and definitely agree that it is much harder to isolate myself in my own little world in Laramie when I see that towns a half world away are just as involved in their own locally oriented lives. In other words, maybe it's harder for me to be environmentally negligent when I see that even these distant places operate under many of the same environmental limits as Laramie, WY since my negligence does, in a tiny but significant way, impact their lives.
 In terms of the book, "Fevered", I think it mostly makes me think about the Australian ski team since there was a whole chapter devoted to why Australia is the first part of the ship making contact with the global warming iceberg. Aside from a couple quarrels I have with the book such as specifically ripping on Vermont and from my opinion having quite the one-sided view, I think that it does do a good job being alarmist and overall informative (though this could be a turn-off for anyone who doesn't like to think about the world getting much hotter). The book points out that a hotter world means more disease via greater vector ranges and impaired health care from more severe weather as well as other impacts such as migrations, etc. While it doesn't seem to be the most pertinent at the moment to Slovakia, it brought upon general themes of change from global warming that I may be able to better connect to the experience after the consolidation of the many projects the team is working on.