The study uses textual analysis to read the representations of the city and the wilderness in GMA-7’s environmental documentaries Signos (2008) and Planet Philippines (2009), and how these representations relate to global warming.

Signos’ (2008) and Planet Philippines’ (2009) discussions on global warming are heavily idiosyncratic because their viewpoints come from binary, and interestingly different, concepts: the city and the wilderness. The study incorporates historical, representational, and urban political ecological perspectives to produce an understanding of the city and the wilderness’ constructed separateness/connection.

By studying and applying the different concepts and principles in the representation of the ‘city’ and the ‘wilderness’, the study wishes to discuss the following: Signos’ and Planet Philippines’ discourse on the issue of global warming based on their version of the ‘city’ and the ‘wilderness’, possible actions demanded by these documentaries, and the directions that could be taken by the audience based on the textual analysis of the documentaries.

Keywords: city, wilderness, representation, global warming