Over Consumption

It's known that over consumption has effected our country and even the world environment. Although the environment is being harmed day by day from this over consumption, there is a deeper issue that needs to be solved in order to solve that one. The issue im speaking about is the reason why people are over consuming and the effects it has on us. Everybody always wants the newest product out. I'm try type of person that will refuse to buy something just because everyone else has it because i dont want to become one of many, my individualism is important to me. Even though i feel this way, i cant help but want it too for that same reason, everyone else has it. In order to stay on top people feel like they need to keep consuming products that come out and get them before everyone else. In the video it talks about a key selling point for people are their neighbors. They see what their friends or neighbors have and want it too. This plays in to the role of over consumption and aslo speaks volumes on their identities. When they are constantly trying to keep up with their neighbors in material objects it says that they arent one hundred percent with themselves. They are repeatedly buying new things to try to define themselves and by doing so they are losing themselves. No longer would someone plainly be that funny guy George, they would be "that guy with the Lexus and big house. I think his name is George." Over consumption clouds who we are and we become people of products. In Faustian Economics it speaks of the idea of limits. Wendell Berry says," improvement by outward expansion may no longer be a good idea." People have to know their limits and by constantly buy new products indulging in over consumption you are constantly testing your limits as well as the worlds.