Bottled Water: Causing Global Warming?

The Times has been running some numbers through the calculator:

Despite its pure image, bottled water is making a significant contribution to climate change. The industry produces as much greenhouse gas as the electricity consumption of about 20,000 homes in a year, according to research by The Times.

To supply the more than two billion litres of bottled water that is consumed by Britons every year, a quarter of which comes from abroad, bottled-water companies produce 33,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions, just less than the electricity consumption of 20,000 households, and the equivalent of the energy needs of 6,000 households.

Horrors! That much? Wow, I mean....population 60 million odd, average household size 2.36, that’s about 25 million households in the country. So bottled water is causing 0.024 % of the CO2 emissions. Ah, no wait, transport and industry are the majority of emissions, not households. Say a third each, just to make the numbers easier?

So bottled water causes 0.008%,....that’s less than one hundredth of one percent...,  of the CO2 emissions in this country. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that the emissions caused by the electrons The Times has massacred to bring us this news were more than the industry itself wastes.

Still this does lead to an interesting series of possible campaigns. Keg beer is infused with (deliberately manufactured!) CO2 to make it fizzy so we’ll have to ban that. Soda pop too, obviously. Real ale might be allowed to survive as the CO2 is made "naturally", as a by product of the fermentation, would be created anyway as the grain decomposed. Guinness might be allowed as they use "nitrous" (a mixture of CO2 and NOx).

Hey wait! It’s CO2 that makes bread dough rise! Quick! Ban bakeries!

Update. Running the numbers through the calculator, just the CO2 in keg beer is 28,000 tonnes a year. Have to ban it of course.