-A globally connected humanity is now a major driver of diverse earth system processes, creating a complex, planetary
-socio-ecological-technological system that exceeds our innate capacity to anticipate the consequences of societal
-decisions and actions. Modeling is critical to enhancing ethical analytical and decision-making capabilities for policy
-and planning, environmental management, resource investment, and security preparedness.
+A globally connected humanity is now a major driver of many earth system processes, creating a planetary
+socio-ecological-technological system whose complex dynamics exceed our innate abilities to anticipate the full
+consequences of our societal (_collective?_) decisions and actions. Modeling is critical to enhance the ethically
+grounded and evidence-driven analytical and decision making capabilities we need for effective and responsive policy and
+planning, environmental management, resource investment, and hazard preparedness.

-Our vision is to enable open and ethical modeling efforts across domains of human and Earth systems sciences and
-engineering to work together to provide an integrated representation of the complex world in which we now live. This
-vision can be realized through a common suite of standards, protocols, and best practices that enables modeling
-scientists to share knowledge and build on one another’s research.
+Our mission is to enable and support open, ethical modeling efforts that operate across the diverse domains of human and
+Earth systems sciences and engineering to provide a scientifically rigorous, integrated representation of the complex
+world in which we now live. This vision can be realized through a common suite of standards, protocols, and best
+practices that help modeling scientists share knowledge and build on one another’s research.```