Jane Poynter Quotes

Jane Poynter is an American aerospace executive, author, Biospherian, speaker and the co-founder and CEO of World View Enterprises, a private near-space exploration and technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Poynter was also a founding member of the Biosphere 2 design team and a crew member from the original 2-year mission inside the materially closed ecological system.

Also known as Speaker, Chief Executive Officer

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

Jane Poynter
- Life
- Time
- World
It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

Jane Poynter
- Pizza

If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.

Jane Poynter
- Life
- Support
- Space
It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

Jane Poynter
- People
- Light
- Positive
It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and to share the marvelous moments with as well.

Jane Poynter
- Help
- Moments
I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.

Jane Poynter
Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.

Jane Poynter
- Door
- Breathe
Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

Jane Poynter
- Earth
- Door
- Ocean