“Fossil” fuels have been responsible for powering the evolution of humans from using hammers to using nail guns. Horses to cars and aircraft and rockets and satellites. None of it would have been possible with burning wood or heating water with mirrors and sunlight. The number of humans in the human race has gone from millions to billions in a hundred years. How is that the destruction of human civilization?
Let's call it oil products. More than 6500 products come from oil. You can't mine minerals without oil You can't convert those minerals to useful products without oil You can't mix and assemble useful items without oil You can't make solar panels, electrical-generation windmills, hydro-electric generators, transport vehicles, roads, homes, food, or pretty much any modern societal necessary products, without oil.
We need oil to refine into solvents, plastics, paint, lubricants, asphalt, roofing materials, fuels, fertilizers, makeup, packaging, etc. The list is long. Not all oil is made into gasoline and diesel, just some. Try building a car, train, boat or plane without oil and then have it take you anywhere.
As you said, oil powers the evolution of humans. Without it, that would destroy modern human civilization (most of us would first starve).