root cause #1
Power is worlwide value, people want money, power, territory. That is exactly what imperialism is it is "the process whereby the dominant politico-economic interests of one nation expropriate for their own enrichment the land, labor, raw materials, and markets of another people," (Michael Parenti, 2011). They take over weaker nations so they will adopt the more dominant culture, values, and plans. This idea is what makes companies drill in others' homes, regarless of their conditions. Countries living in poverty are actually more vulnerable to being taken over. People living in empoverished conditions have no money to keep their homes or resources, and aren't as educated to they would be easily tricked into signing contracts that snatch their rights as shown in the F.L.O.W documentary. People didn't know they were being charged for the amount of water they were using, the water companies didn't care either, they just wanted their money.