>[!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." ("Ecotage", 2025). ## References - Ecotage. (2025). In *Wikipedia*. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecotage&oldid=*1219836433*