//quote array
	quoteList = new Array();
	
quoteList[0] = "Sustainable human development is the expansion of the substantive freedoms of people today while making reasonable efforts to avoid seriously compromising those of future generations."; 
quoteList[1] = "Where the link between the environment and quality of life is direct, as with pollution, environmental achievements are often greater in developed countries; where the links are more diffuse, performance is much weaker.";
quoteList[2] = "Environmental trends over recent decades show deterioration on several fronts, with adverse repercussions for human development, especially for the millions of people who depend directly on natural resources for their livelihoods.";
quoteList[3] = "The most disadvantaged people carry a double burden of deprivation: more vulnerable to the wider effects of environmental degradation, they must also cope with threats to their immediate environment posed by indoor air pollution, dirty water and unimproved sanitation."; 
quoteList[4] = "Environmental degradation stunts people's capabilities in many ways, going beyond incomes and livelihoods to include impacts on health, education and other dimensions of well–being.";
quoteList[5] = "A 10 percent increase in the number of people affected by an extreme weather event reduces a country's HDI almost 2 percent, with larger effects on incomes and in medium HDI countries.";
quoteList[6] = "Meeting unmet need for family planning by 2050 would lower the world's carbon emissions an estimated 17 percent below what they are today."; 
quoteList[7] = "There are many promising prospects for expanding energy provision without a heavy environmental toll.";
quoteList[8] = "Traditional methods of assessing environmental policies are often silent on distribution issues. While the importance of equity and inclusion is already explicit in the objectives of green economy policies, we propose taking the agenda further.";
quoteList[9] = "At a minimal rate and without additional administrative costs, a currency transaction tax could yield annual revenues of $40 billion. Not many other options could satisfy the new and additional funding needs stressed in international debates.";
quoteList[10] = "Any truly transformational effort to scale up efforts to slow or halt climate change will require blending domestic and international, private and public, and grant and loan resources.";
quoteList[11] = "We care about environmental sustainability because of the fundamental injustice of one generation living at the expense of others. Poeple born today should not have a greater claim on Earth's resources than those born a hundred or a thousand years from now.";
quoteList[12] = "The thesis of weak sustainability focuses on total capital stock rather than on natural resource depletion; that of strong sustainability focuses on the belief that some basic natural assets have no real substitutes and thus must be preserved.";
quoteList[13] = "Since we cannot place a meaningful upper bound on the catastrophic losses from large temperature changes, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions not only to mitigate the known consequences but also to protect against uncertain worst–case scenarios.";
quoteList[14] = "Promoting human development entails addressing local, national and global sustainability; this can—and should—be equitable and empowering.";
quoteList[15] = "Environmental degradation stunts people's capabilities in many ways, going beyond incomes and livelihoods to include impacts on health, education and other dimensions of well–being.";
quoteList[16] = "A 10 percent increase in the number of people affected by an extreme weather event reduces a country's HDI almost 2 percent, with larger effects on incomes and in medium HDI countries.";
quoteList[17] = "Meeting unmet need for family planning by 2050 would lower the world's carbon emissions an estimated 17 percent below what they are today."; 
quoteList[18] = "There are many promising prospects for expanding energy provision without a heavy environmental toll.";
quoteList[19] = "Traditional methods of assessing environmental policies are often silent on distribution issues. While the importance of equity and inclusion is already explicit in the objectives of green economy policies, we propose taking the agenda further.";
quoteList[20] = "At a minimal rate and without additional administrative costs, a currency transaction tax could yield annual revenues of $40 billion. Not many other options could satisfy the new and additional funding needs stressed in international debates.";
quoteList[21] = "Any truly transformational effort to scale up attempts to slow or halt climate change will require blending domestic and international, private and public, and grant and loan resources.";

	
	
	//randomization
	var now = new Date();
	var secs = now.getSeconds();
	var raw_random_number = Math.random(secs);
	var random_number = Math.round(raw_random_number * (quoteList.length));

	if (random_number == quoteList.length){random_number = 0}
	
	
	//set quote
	var quote = quoteList[random_number];