It was a realistic response, and an episode years ahead of its time in its climate change allegory (several years ahead of an inconvienent truth for example) A

It was a realistic response, and an episode years ahead of its time in its climate change allegory (several years ahead of an inconvienent truth for example) Alas aside from a couple of references later in S7 of TNG, trek then decided to handwave a technical solution in the background and we never heard of the problem again. Indeed Trek in later years (Picard season 2) also said that climate change in the Trek universe was solved by magical microbes from Europa.