Evaluate the arousal intensity of the following sentence, considering the mental state of the author. Present a score between 0 and 1, where 0 denotes extremely calm and 1 denotes extremely energetic.
Sentence: Rather than try and come up with some sort of scenario, the USWA simply ignored what was going on in Youngstown, hoping that perhaps the problem would resolve itself, or at least not spread any further than it already had.