The Law of Unintended Consequences

I have been reading about a very depressing topic, namely biofuels. Here's something that should be a happy solution to our energy needs, proposed by green minded individuals, yet the whole thing has spiraled out of control.
You can blame "agribusiness" or the commodities market or even just the law of unintended consequences, but the result is the same--terrible. Instead of recycling used oils or grain waste, whole rain forests are being eliminated to plant soy for biofuel. Palm oil, traditionally used for cooking has spiked to such high prices (to be used as motor fuel), that the poor can no longer afford it. Mexico is having tortilla protests due to the prices of corn, Indonesia & Brazil is plowing rain forests, the list just goes on and on.........
Meanwhile governments really can't stop this crazy biofuels snowball--because they are the ones who just pushed it over the cliff in the first place!!!!!!!! (i.e. ethanol mandates )
So here I am, depressed again as the wilderness disappears in the name of progress. As I read one quote "the rain forests are just junk to many people". In other words: money talks and bullshit walks. So as we continue to provide energy to more and more earths inhabitants, we loose our wild places. Will there be anything left? Where is a nature lover supposed to live?? Am I on the right earth? Is there another one??