I am not sure of many of these arguments, which I have considered and always willing to reconsider, however my present thoughts against lead-acid and your points are
1) the huge amounts of lead needed to get the same battery density vs lithium, which greatly sways the extraction, transport and recycling will greatly sway the impact assessment, one for which I am yet to see real figures and facts vs. opinions
2) Lithium is used as a drug to cure various ailments, so in toxicity terms quite the opposite of lead. while in its (battery) packaging that may not be an issue; we seem to use the term "recycle" with lead-acid batteries like you just take it to the council deposit and some magic happens, but in reality we are talking about huge amounts of a very heavy, hard to transport toxic metal, hazardous acid until it is neutralised, most likely not on-site, and "nightmare" (sorry had to re-use the term) amounts of plastic it is encased in, which I am yet to see which type it is, but am willing to bet its either not recyclable or very hard to, as apart from glass and silver is the only thing to hold acid!!!
3) yes - lead acid batteries are encased in ridiculous amounts of plastic, anyone car to (knowledgeably) tell us how recyclable that is?
4) Lead acid needs recycling at least 3 times sooner that lithium
5) lithium can be "mined" by processing well water, vs. actual mining of lead, you know, down mines where lets face it nobody wants to go to extract poison
6) what are we going to do with these huge amounts of lead after lead demand inevitably disappears
7) what are we going to do even sooner when the commercial viability of recycling lead acid goes away but there are still shed loads of the beggers --- left abandoned, waiting for some kid to burn / poison himself destroying it...
8) how much extra fuel is used lugging these buggers around??? (ok, I am now just throwing stuff out there lol).
on the other hand of contrast
1) people say recycling lithium is hard but there is no real had facts I have been able to encounter??
2) are they recycled or just up-cycled?
3) the amount of lithium needing to be recycled is infinitely smaller as a percentage and a weight than lead, and is not encased in huge amounts of plastic and acid...
4) its a nightmare apparently
the fire hazard is negligible in lifepo4 in question