Task: Quantify the arousal intensity of the sentence, assigning it a value between 0 (highly calm) and 1 (highly energetic), reflecting the emotional tone conveyed.
Sentence: I’ll forward your Petition, along with those from thousands of other Audubon members and supporters, urging the USDA to withdraw its cruel plan to poison blackbirds ... in favor of alternative, benign methods of protecting sunflower crops.
Intensity score: 