>[!abstract]
>Monkeywrenching, or ecotage, is sabotage carried out for environmental reasons. In fiction, the practice of ecotage was popularized in Edward Abbey's 1975 anarchistic novel *The Monkey Wrench Gang* and its sequel *Hayduke Lives!* (1990). In their 1972 environmental-action book *Ecotage!*, Sam Love and David Obst claimed to have coined the word "ecotage" by combining "ecology" and "sabotage" to describe a "branch of tactical biology" (Wikipedia, 2025).
>[!related]
>- **North** (upstream): [[Environmental activism]]
>- **West** (similar): [[Ecotage]] (ecological sabotage)
>- **East** (different): [[Lawful protest]]
>- **South** (downstream): —