Looking up US EEIO goods/services categories for estimates of emissions factors today, and found this great miscellaneous category of all the rejects and misfits from every other category:

"339990/gaskets, seals, musical instruments, fasteners, brooms, brushes, mop and other misc. goods/us"

Reminded me of a passage from Foucault's "Order of Things, An Archaeology of the Human Sciences", where Foucault talks about the hilarious jolt of reading an excerpt of a classification system so alien to him as to seem incomprehensible.

Similarly, coming face-to-face with the results (tables!) of a system that is an entire *economy wide* attempt to put a figure on the emissions of everything in the whole world gives the same ambitious, doomed and deranged vibes!

Shout out to the heroes at the US EPA for trying!

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