Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg completed her 15-day voyage on an emission-free sailboat to attend a climate summit at the United Nations earlier this week. The 16-year-old delivered an impassioned speech that made international headlines. And on Friday, she’s scheduled to attend the Montreal climate change march, which Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May are also expected to attend.

Thunberg has inspired a ton of think pieces, been all over the media, and just yesterday won what’s known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” But not all the attention has been good . . . and a lot of the criticism she’s faced have been personal attacks.

Host Tamara Khandaker talks to Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer for Salon. They discuss why Thunberg isn’t the only women in the fight against climate change who deals with this kind of criticism, and what is it about her and others like her that inspire such visceral reactions.

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