these are figures geographers like benjamin hennig will be able to give you off the top of their head. but he argues that the real distance between us is defined by very different factors, like health, education, water supply, child mortality -- the list goes on. and these, he argues, highlight much greater gaps than the geographical distance. take these into account and suddenly the shape of our world changes in front of our very eyes. >> the earth, as we know it. and the way we may be seeing it in the future. these images tell stories. for example, where people have access to electricity. and where the population is growing fastest. or where people are hardest hit by extreme weather. this is the world as seen through the eyes of a german geographer at sheffield university. it's earned benjamin hennig a place on the list of northern england's brightest minds. >> the maps that i deal with basically serve the principle of orientation in a different sense -- these maps don't take us from a to b, but they give us an idea of how the future could look, how we're shaping our planet, the env