While researching the topic of over-consumption, my colleagues and I gathered reliable information from websites, documents, books, and graphs in order to gain knowledge about over-consumption. These authors wrote about the positive and negative effects of all types of over-consumption, and they used studies to provide information that supports their stand on the topic. However, we collected data through trusted databases such as Gale, summarized important information, and cited each source in the works cited section of the paper. We continued to look for other connections to our topic including the novel 1984, written by George Orwell, and the video game Fall-Out. We focused on over-consumption of natural resources, goods, and services
