'It's crazy!' Sean Paul slams COP building new road through Amazon rainforest for Brazil summit

Speaking to LBC's Tom Swarbrick, the Jamaican rapper and singer called the decision "crazy".

He said: "I don't know who makes those decisions, but I've seen them clearing forests and stuff like that.

"It's depressing to me because knowing that medicine is in there, knowing that it's the lungs of the earth. It's giving us oxygen, you know, it's kind of sad to see that."

Paul attended a COP summit in 2015 as he was involved with the song 'Love Song to the Earth', which was a collaborative effort by 16 international artists to raise public awareness about climate change.

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Asked if he would get involved with COP again, he said he would do a song again, but would probably get more involved telling his story of what he's seen growing up.

He told LBC: "I'm 52 now. The summers are hotter, the beaches have receded, the storms are getting stronger. I think those are indications for me that we're being affected."

"Like when I was a kid, it wasn't as hot," he said. "There's record breaking summers that we've been having that are extremely hot."

He added: "I feel the summers are hot. I don't wear pants in the summer here. I wear shorts. It's hot."

Paul's home country of Jamaica is reeling from Category 5 storm, Hurricane Melissa, which hit on October 28.

He described the aftermath as "a Halloween setting", with "no leaves on trees" and blocked roads.

People are also struggling with hunger and thirst, while some are having to be airlifted away due to mudslides.

He explained: "It was frightening because I've been in hurricanes before. Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, and that blew a part of my house away and blew me to the side, flung me on the ground like a piece of rag.

"And so knowing the power of a storm, and that was only category three, I was fearful."

Asked whether he thinks climate change is behind the extreme weather, he said he understands the sentiment behind people saying "it's just natural", but he has seen drastic changes in his home country.

"I'm seeing physical beaches recede many 20, 40ft, like gone. There's a famous beach in Jamaica called Hellshire. People used to go there in the 70s and 80s to relax and eat a very great meal. Now we can only go there to eat a meal because there's no beach, there's hardly any beach."

Paul has pledged $50,000 (£38,000) to match donations to Food For The Poor Jamaica.

The storm also hit nearby Haiti, where it caused catastrophic flooding and killed at least 30 people, according to local authorities.