Climate change is a pressing contemporary global peace issue. Climate change has a multiplying effect on many other forms of violence from climate refugees to food insecurity, poverty and wars over resources. This chapter argues that climate change is a symptom of a global systemic crisis, connected to social and economic systems obscured by static-biased thinking and the assumptions of static metaphysics (epistemologies, ontologies and cosmologies) not nested in process contexts. This chapter starts with an up-to-date assessment of the climate crisis, including an examination of counter-narratives of climate denialism. It then assesses the systemic nature of the crisis, focusing on patterns of population growth, consumption and technology. The overriding influence of political economy on the prospects for change is observed, justifying a deeper examination of political and economic theories (in Chaps. 5 and 6 ). A process lens is not unique; it is found in much of the trans-disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship on the topic. However, by analysing the climate crisis through a process lens here, it is seen as intertwined with a crisis of planetary ecological systems, a crisis of the world economy and a crisis of democracy, each with hegemonic static-biased thinking at their roots. Building on this perspective, the chapter critiques fragmented approaches to climate solutions. The analysis highlights the complementary changes on production/supply side of the economy (the dominant approach) and the consumption/demand side (often overlooked), emphasising the multi-directional relationship between the two domains and building bridges between individual and collective action. Viewed through a process lens, the systemic crisis is understood to be irreducible to one issue or one solution, and the multi-directional influence of parts in wholes and wholes in parts gives rise to multi-scale interventions examined in the balance of this book.