<human>: True story. I'm a young (18 years old) person facing this almost laughable decision.

I'm a student with definitely above average marks who's going to go study mathematics at university. I also love programming and have been learning programming by myself since I was 13 or so. My objective would be to either do research, or do some interesting and well-paid job at a IT/software company.

Now, on the other side. My father is a farmer and he would like to see me continue its job. He already owns everything I would need: The fields, the machinery, some forests...

I live in Spain, which hasn't any big IT/software/research companies. I've been thinking about potentially emigrating but that's a whole different matter. I don't even know if I'm as valuable as I believe...

On the farmer side, I'm worried about the energy crisis... I've potentially got 60 years more to live and lots of things can happen to me and my loved ones. Peak oil, global warming, population growth, population ageing... all of those things are happening and I fear the possibility of a huge crash. What's obvious is that things must change. What's debatable is by how much.

I think I can do both while I'm at university. But after I finish I don't think they may be compatible. Perhaps I'll have a clearer idea by then...

There's so much uncertainty and so many possible regrets. So reddit, did someone have a similar experience? Am I missing anything here?

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: Young student faced with deciding whatever he should be a farmer or a programmer/mathematician. Fears crap job and energy/population crisis. Needs help deciding.