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I know the Emperor made some moves to stabilize the ecosystem and such, but in the long term, esepcially between the Heresy and the War of the Beast, why didn't the High Lords make a conserted effort to build hive cities in spoace (something they can do, and it's not particularly straining) and move most of the population onto Orbital Plates or even a plethora of very cheap O'Niel cylinders that don't even need grav plates?
Then scrub Terra of all it's radioactive junk, set up massive Hydrogen cracking stations until the ocean basins filled and turn Terra into a prstine Civilized/Pleasure World? Obviously the Imperium always has fronts, and it's corrupt, and they certainly couldn't pour these kinds of resources into every world, but this is Terra, it's supposed to be the homeworld and the throneworld all at once.
I know the Doyalist answer: grim dark and metal. But I don't know the Watsonian answer.
People are (somewhat deservedly) meming on you but alright
- The Imperial Palace in itself is already very much a net negative influence because of just how big it is and how much staff it needs that doesn't live in there
- The Primarchs dotted the whole surface with defensive emplacements and they only shored them up after the heresy
- The AdMech DOES NOT believe in environmental preservation but control all (most) technology so they wouldn't be willing to comply
- The whole surface had been bombed to hell and back
- Even in 40k launching things/people to orbit is a tricky task
- Pollution & high centralization helps with crowd control if you don't care about smaller crimes such as theft or serial killings and only need to prevent outright rebellion
- Even prior to the Great Crusade and in some cases even the Cybernetic Revolt the model of the Hive World/City was extremely common. Even before things went horrible Humanity wasn't (in all instances) a happy go lucky Star Trek civ and closer to, say, humanity in Andromeda or humanity at its height in Battletech. Strong, united, but not "nice" and with plenty of rough edges
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