Sentences with phrase «same fools errand»

Not exact matches

Trying to maximize both at the same time is a fool's errand.

And yet the same reputable Tamino seems to be engaged in a similar «fool's errand» in trying to predict future Arctic Sea Ice Extent in his recent post:

If the billions that is being wasted in the fools errand (of changing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere that is increasing because of the warming oceans, http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/compress:12/from:1958/normalise/plot/esrl-co2/compress:12/derivative/normalise/detrend:-0.3) is spent on sewerage systems in some of the capital cities of the developing countries, we could have saved thousands of life now and at the same time helped the environment by preventing sewerage going to the rivers and bringing them back to life with fish and bird life.

I think it would be a fool's errand to try to match that marketing budget dollar for dollar, but it's a fool's errand to try and take the same tactic as well.