It's a question of priorities. Do you put human (and non-human) lifeforms' health and safety above technology, or not? If all you value is money and efficiency, then you end viewing things through the lens of what technology needs or wants, which is really just an extension of the economic policy of growth, growth, growth.
Before Teflon, people had pans, and they cleaned them. After teflon, people will have pans, and they will clean them.
It's not even a case like lithium batteries where my lifestyle would be significantly impacted if I had to go without.
To some degree prioritizing tech makes sense, if the tech is replacing some other thing that harms living beings more. I doubt an LED factory is environmentally perfect, but the alternative would probably be people using oil lamps in many places.
And some things are just too convenient to give up for 1 in a million possible risks, like WiFi.
But things that only benefit a small enthusiast community in nonessential ways with large costs to everyone else are just too much.
Before Teflon, people had pans, and they cleaned them. After teflon, people will have pans, and they will clean them.