Car crash

Toyota has just forecast its first annual loss in 71 years. This is being reported as yet more evidence of the global economic downturn. But part of me wonders whether we just had too many cars (and too much of most things). Maybe shedding some of this unnecessary 'stuff', and finding a new equilibrium at a point of greater simplicity, is no bad thing for our own well being (physical, mental and spiritual). And the well being of the planet our rampant consumerist-fueled economic growth was ripping apart. Who knows.