A World Without Oil with Richard HeinbergMP3 Download Within our lifetimes we will see the peak in worldwide oil production. Soon after, we will be forced to learn to function without fossil fuels. The impact on our culture will be extraordinary in fact, as Heinberg warns, "Civilization itself may be fundamentally unsustainable. When you add fossil fuels to it you have civilization on steroids. That's what we've had over the last couple of centuries, and that is profoundly unsustainable."