title: The Holigent Solution: How to Win the Transition Race to Economic Security, Quality of Life, Peace and Sustainability or How I Hope My Children and ... Wonderful but Troubled and Endangered Planet
author: A Nicholas Frank
description: A. Nicholas Frank is a social thinker/innovator and founder of the think tank and nonprofit organization Holigent.org. He was born into the Great Depression, survived Nazism and World War II, and grew up in and escaped communist Hungary in 1956. Elisa Frank is a human-environmental geographer with degrees from UCLA and UCSB. Nicholas Frank and Elisa Frank work together as a father and daughter team offering rational solutions to the multi-dimensional challenges threatening people and our planet. Nicholas Frank lives in Los Angeles with his wife; they have two grown children.
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  Sion pushes through the crowd of people packed together in front of the large
  holoscreen. They’re waiting for the weekly announcement and hoping for good
  luck. The announcement provides an update on how Earth’s ecosystem is
  recovering, never by much, and occasionally they announce a family lucky
  enough to be rehoused on another planet. It’s what everyone wants, a way off
  this dying planet.
  
  Earth is still capable of sustaining life and measures have been put in place
  in less populated areas to encourage regrowth, but there’s so many people here
  and not enough time to wait. More dangerous than the dying planet for most
  people is the lack of security here. There’s very little oversight in their
  communities and most of it is self appointed.
  
  It’s very easy to run afoul of their would be protectors and unfortunately he
  already has.
  
  Almost this