“Here’s what I would like you to learn about Paul Farmer,” writer John Green wrote in a tribute to the global health activist. “He merely didn’t settle for the concept that inequality of health-care entry is pure or inevitable. As a result of of his perception, and since of the nonprofit health group Companions in Health that he co-founded, hundreds of thousands of folks in some of the poorest nations on Earth are alive in the present day.”

Green, who you might know as the writer of “The Fault in Our Stars” and “The Anthropocene Reviewed,” joined James Hohmann to debate Farmer’s life and noteworthy legacy. 

And since Green is a novelist and YouTuber with a considerable fan base, he and Hohmann additionally made time to speak social media and the brokenness of Web tradition.