Why does deploying new more efficient technology need to cripple economies?

Here's the problem: bombarding them with facts just confuses them. What you have to do is take a fact and dilute it with water until the fact is essentially no longer there. Then have them drink the water.

... it's likely that a large sub-set of chemophobes would confuse it ...

You bypassed the Maginot line of logic and rationality and annexed the Sudetenland of irrational comparisons!

Sorry to burst your bubble but the Irish are not a race.

A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history.[1] In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up.[2][3] In international relations, nation can refer to a country or sovereign state.[1] The word nation can more specifically refer to people of North American Indians, such as the Cherokee Nation that prefer this term over the contested term tribe.

Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin) (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature.[1] Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is best known for English language novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, and The Third Policeman (written under the nom de plume Flann O'Brien) as well as many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish language novel An Béal Bocht (written under the name Myles na gCopaleen), O'Nolan has also been referred to as a "scientific prophet" in relation to his writings on thermodynamics, quaternion theory and atomic theory.

Incidentally, I've heard that the late Mr. Bin Laden was a big enthusiast of the right to keep and bear arms...