Deadly heat waves are breaking records and making headlines around the world this summer, but they have nothing on the heat waves that the North China Plain is likely to see in the future if we don’t act now to combat climate change.

A study published in Nature Communications Tuesday found that if we do nothing to curb emissions, China’s most populous and agriculturally important region could see heat waves deadly even for healthy people by 2100.

“China is currently the largest contributor to the emissions of greenhouse gases, with potentially serious implications to its own population: Continuation of the current pattern of global emissions may limit habitability of the most populous region of the most populous country on Earth,” study authors Elfatih A. B. Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Suchul Kang of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research…