Current Events > I need a Star Wars nerd to explain to me how Coruscant exists

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How do they manage not to make a gigantic toxic greenhouse of the atmosphere?

How do they get natural resources? Is literally everything imported?

And why is the last syllable pronounced "-sant" instead of "-skant"?
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It's made from fresh croissant.
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Coruscant's enormous population and industrialization also produced massive amounts of carbon dioxide and heat energy. Thousands of carbon dioxide-reactive atmospheric dampeners were put into place in the upper atmosphere to prevent atmospheric degeneration. The first set of these planet-wide dampeners, developed by the Galactic Republic, was known as the Coruscant Atmospheric Reclamation Project

Everything is imported

And Iunno man Space English is a funny language
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https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141995/how-does-coruscant-get-food

The Ultimate Star Wars factbook confirms that Coruscant imports its food (along with all of its other consumables) from off-planet.

Global megalopolis:
Exhausted of all natural resources, Coruscant is entirely dependent on outside support to survive

There are various mentions of hydroponic farming although with a population of trillions, you wouldn't get very far unless vast areas of the planet were given over to it.

Orbital traffic encloses the planet like electrons around a nucleus, delivering food and supplies, ambassadors and tourists.

Palaeontologists believe most of Coruscant was already paved over by the time interstellar flight became common. Such rampant overpopulation forced the inhabitants to develop the first atmosphere scrubbers, hydroponic farms, delivery pipelines, and recycling plants.
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Isnt there something in KOTOR about these scrubbers or am I thinking of something else
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