ABSTRACT
Climate change and related disasters are expanding the number of people in need of social protection. As the crisis continues and expands, so does the number of people in need increase, encroaching on national budgets for development. This development, therefore, requires novelty in thinking and acting. This chapter, which is based on evidence from Mozambique, claims that the world in general, and Mozambique in particular, are heading toward a chaotic and exclusionist era where concepts such as resilience and protection offer very little insight for managing complexities and turning crisis into opportunities for global and local wellbeing. Crisis is expanding but the tools we are using such as resilience and development are often taken out of context and, in many cases such as in Mozambique, they have done more damage than good. In general, the measures taken favour the rich, and attempts at vulnerability reduction, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation are often not sustainable. Local capabilities are rapidly being eroded and the better-off tend to profit.
