[jbermingham123]

Earth will never become Coruscant for two reasons.


First, Coruscant is just too damn big. Although everyone seems to claim that Coruscant has 1 trillion people (idk where that number came from), some simple math says that estimate is wayyyy off. in fact it would probably more than a million times that (a quintillion). It's easy to forget just how small humans are, but consider that with the density of Manila, the LA basin alone could comfortably house the entire world population, and with the density of the Kowloon Walled City, it could house just about 40 times that. In fact with Kowloon-Walled-City-densities, (which could be made quite comfortable with modern architecture... remember the walled city was only 7-10 stories tall), the Northeast Corridor alone could surpass the trillion people mark.


Secondly, as the cradle planet of the human species and our civilization, the various ecosystems of Earth are and always will be deeply ingrained in our culture, and as we expand out into the universe, we will attempt to carry those ecosystems with us using aeroponics, fish farming and other technologies. Earth will be remembered as the only place in the universe that all those plants, animals, etc occur naturally, and the place that humanity itself occurred naturally. Just as we protect heritage sites like the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China, and the Parthenon, we will protect the naturally-occurring biosphere that gave rise to the people who built them.


To put it simply, the Earth of the future is a planet-wide heritage site, where human activity is banned everywhere except in the existing cities, which, as explained above, will be able to fit a trillion people quite comfortably.