People in these 2 provinces are most prepared for a doomsday in Canada

As the Doomsday Clock clicks closer to catastrophe some people find solace in preparing for the worst.

In its annual statement, the Doomsday Clock put the current time to an apocalypse at 90 seconds to midnight.

The Doomsday Clock symbolizes the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe,” the 2024 Doomsday Clock statement reads.

The clock’s original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 90 seconds, set last year on Jan. 24.

The 90-second mark is a reflection of several global events including the war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons. Other threats are the fact that 2023 was the hottest year on record and global greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise; and the growth of emerging artificial intelligence tools and biological technologies.

It appears that at least some Canadians are concerned according to a new study from Best Casino Sites.

The study found that more than 56 per cent of Americans and Canadians have done something to prep for doomsday in the past 12 months. But only two per cent feel fully prepared for a doomsday event.

The provinces most prepared in Canada are British Columbia and Ontario, according to the study.

Both provinces score 90 out of 130 on the doomsday preparedness metric, “making them the places with the highest concentration of people who are seriously concerned about the apocalypse happening sometime next week,” the study states.

People who responded to the survey in Ontario say they spend $1,342 per year on survival gear. And 50 per cent say they’ve done some doomsday prep within the last year and about 18,000 people belong to one or more apocalypse-related Facebook groups.

The study found most people fear a natural disaster (36 per cent) or economic collapse (23 per cent). Other concerns are a pandemic (20 per cent) and nuclear war (20 per cent).

The study was conducted through a search of social media trends related to doomsday prepping along with a survey of 3,000 Americans and 2,000 Canadians in December 2023.

See the full study here.

Main photo: Roger Brown