My question came up!

I was revising for an exam on Global Security Challenges, which included wide-ranging topics from terrorism to politics. I asked my lecturer what to revise for and she told me ‘read what you’re interested in, and I’m sure you going to answer the questions.’ I spent a weekend surfing the Web and read articles on various topics, including the small arms trade and human trafficking in Afghanistan and piracy. I also came across an article where Osama Bin Laden blamed the US and other developed nations for climate change and thought that it would be an interesting punch line for the exam if there is anything along those lines. This led me to read more about climate change (which was not in my course syllabus) and make links between climate change and piracy. I found out that climate change was killing off microscopic sea life, which was in turn killing off fish and putting fishermen out of business and some of these fishermen were turning to piracy to make ends meet. I concluded that climate change has caused these good people, fishermen, to go into basically bad people. On the exam, I was asked a question on how climate change influences global security issues and I was delighted that I had been accidentally directed to climate change issues while researching potential angles for exam answers!